To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
Irving Babbitt

Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
Roger Daltrey

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Carroll Quigley

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
James Taylor

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney

Failure too is a form of death.
Graham Greene

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Laurence J. Peter

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Audre Lorde

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks