That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Sting

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Vin Diesel

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Amy Tan

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
Amy Tan

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
Timothy Geithner

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Theodor Herzl

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Alan Rickman