Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Obviously a major malfunction.

Stephen Laberge

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Ben Stein

Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void.

Folashade' Ayanwale

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Dennis Quaid

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry

The only failure is not to try.

George Clooney

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure.

S. I. Hayakawa

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Tom Krause

When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both.

James Dale Davidson

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Zig Ziglar

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George F. Burns

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Zig Ziglar

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Tommy Lasorda

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Jason Fried

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will.

Richard Pops

I think the state has failed. The failure goes back decades. The culpability goes back decades. We just didn't pay attention.

Jerry Patterson

Of course it has been a failure. If it was a success, we wouldn't have come to this.

Guan Yi

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

I have a fear of failure.

Joe Montana

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

David O. Mckay

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

Robert Townsend

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm S. Forbes

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Louise Nevelson

Nothing beats a failure but a try.

Pauletta Vaughn

I underestimated the dilapidated, horrific conditions our city was in. ... My biggest failure was not communicating. We have a long way to go, but we've come a mighty long way.

Kwame Kilpatrick

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold Toynbee

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Robert H. Schuller

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Tom Watson

He has a criminal history in Atlanta for failure to appear. That shows his propensity not to comply with a court order.

Lorrain Croy

Even if it broke, it wasn't a failure. If it didn't work, you adjust your thinking. That's what engineers do all the time.

Theresa Smith

When you see something like this, it begs asking what failure in their system led to this. Why didn't anyone pick it up?

Charles Elson

Huge failure on the part of the Bush administration...

Cal Thomas

Largest and most expensive marketing failure since the Edsel.

Adam Jaffe

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Don't expect a catastrophic failure. It's localized seepage.

Chad Rachel

They don't worry about failure and they only think of the good things that can happen.

Rod Marsh

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

99 percent of species put on this list are not extinct. That is not a failure; that's an enormous success.

Norm Dicks

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

Peter Charlton

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

David Labahn

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Robert J. Mckain

Our failure to convert on second chances on defense really hurt us in the middle of the game.

Jesse Schwartzman

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Jules Ellinger

The scale of this failure is staggering.

Adam Quinton

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Robert Orben

Fortunately there were no pedestrians or children or bicycles on top of the transformer at the time of the failure.

Paul Mitchell

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Benjamin E. Mays

This case was entirely preventable. The failure here is one of resources.

Mary Lauby

He never did well in school, and she couldn't accept that. She felt it was a failure on her part.

Vivian Covard

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Ralph Waldo Trine

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Arthur Bloch

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

Failure to make progress.

Peter Jenkins

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Richard Clarke

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

William Lloyd George

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

John Haggai

The failure of love: that's what all laws are really.

Colman Mccarthy

Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!

David Potts

The war on drugs is not only a dismal failure, but it's a terribly destructive policy.

Jack Cole

Failure to contain the present epidemic of obesity may accentuate the expected age-related increase in dementia.

Dr Rachel Whitmer

All we can say at this point is that there was not a catastrophic failure.

John Brannen

Failure to move now or to signal new determination to (do so) will make these weapons accepted currency.

Rosario Green

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

James Allen

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

It was a catastrophic failure.

Matt Andresen

We take this failure very seriously, and we will do everything possible to support compliance with the requirements of the agreement.

Rosemary Mucklow

Failure to prepare. Prepare to fail.' .

Roy Keane

Accredited has never paid a loss on a bail bond because of a failure to appear in court.

Debbie Jallad

Failure is not an option.

Jim Cox

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: "Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Catastrophic failure to respond.

Terry Moran

Every attempt is a success. Failure is letting any chance to try go by.

James Dee Richardson

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

If the Bush economic program is as successful as they say it is, why do they keep firing everybody who had anything to do with it? ... an extraordinary confession of failure in the economic arena by this administration.

Barney Frank

It's true. They are a failure in planning.

John Day

It is very complicated. I certainly think accountability has its place, but it has to make sense and not set you up for failure.

Sharon Dye

Clearly, a failure to address our nation's agriculture labor crisis would cripple our state's No. 1 industry.

Larry Wooten

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

George Cukor

This is a failure of the implementation of laws and a failure of policy.

Von Hernandez

Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.

Gary Hoffman

I wouldn't call it a failure. We went in with very low expectations.

Paul Brinkley

We had 11 successes last week and one failure.

Glen Castlebury

Believe it or not, failure to include W-2s is another big one.

David R. Bergmann

You don't want to rush a 19-year-old kid, have failure and then have a setback.

Sid Monge

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

Cameron Crowe

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

Scott Simons

It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.

Dan Becker

Failure doesn't kill you. . . it increases your desire to make something happen.

Kevin Costner

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Anne Baxter

Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Roman Polanski

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Win the Sun Belt, and that's a guaranteed ticket to a bowl game. And after the way we've performed so far, anything less than a bowl is a failure.

Dewhitt Betterson

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Bonnie Hunt

For the supervisor to want a shopping center without an anchor means he is dooming that shopping center for failure.

Paul Camarda

The Democratic Party is like an addict. They're addicted to failure.

Paul Hackett

It was an internal machine failure.

Polly Bell

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

We have not had a single civilian casualty, ... It went very well, beyond our expectations. After all their boasting, it's a big failure for the Taliban.

Lutfullah Mashal

Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.

Lee Kreindler

Failure to be independent and failure to be circumspect carries a serious threat of liability.

Charles Elson

It's very difficult in IT to understand the business impact of a fault or failure.

Chris Gahagan

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Marcus Bach, Dr.

Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option II ... Apollo 13.

Apollo 13

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Tom Hopkins

The failure to spay and neuter pets — that's the biggest contributor to the pet population.

Brenda Miller

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Og Mandino

These kind of games really make us better. Success sometimes comes from failure.

Dave Dwyer

When one is a social failure, the reasons are as clear as day.

Arnold Lobel

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sonia Johnson

Technically a lot of damage has been done to the dollar but yesterday's failure to break through new levels has helped the dollar.

Kamal Sharma

Failure is not a crime, ... The crime is not trying.

Ron Dellums

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Charlotte Whitton

If Madrid don't win something again it will probably be the biggest failure in its history.

Jesus Gallego

You'll be more likely to succeed if failure isn't an option.

Gary Foreman

Success is 99 percent failure.

Soichiro Honda

If you have a failure in one place, it can affect the power delivery in many places.

Stephanie Moore

Without a way for the voters to check, we don't have any way to recover votes if there's a machine failure.

Marybeth Kuznik

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Michael Korda

You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.

John Harrington

But it marks, to some degree, a failure on our part to communicate the message.

Joe Garcia

You really can't say that something will make you or break you. If you get into that, you're setting your program up for failure.

Mark Mangino

That's why the failure rate is so high; they get impassioned and emotional about their idea.

Tom O'connell

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ''clicks.''.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Nighttime is one of the more crucial times -- if there was radio failure, how would anybody know?

Kevin Burns

Every failure is a step to success.

William Whewell

What do you call it when you take a city - the same city - for the third time? Success or failure?

James Lindsay

We didn't expect the meeting to completely fall and I don't see it going ahead as any kind of failure.

John Blake

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Everyone is working to achieve this record and no one has discussed failure.

Jackie Mcquillan

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

The failure to get a decisive vote in the German elections has left uncertainty.

Joe Francomano

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Claude Monet

The conference has been a failure. We expected it would establish a line of action for the future and now we feel frustrated.

Sergio Leitao

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Mark Caine

We would never do so, but if there are mistakes or failure of the cabinet, everything of course would be handled according to the basic law.

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

I don't want to put a deadline on it, because you never know, you set yourself up for failure. But I'm very optimistic.

John Godfrey

Women tend to have more diastolic heart failure.

Jo Parrish

The text is a failure for development and a victory for corporate globalization.

Walden Bello

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Louis Binstock

There is no failure. Only feedback.

Robert G. Allen

It's very frustrating, employees are very angry- and I don't blame them. I'd be having heart failure as well.

Corky Mattingly

DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Groucho Marx

There is but one failure, and that is, not to be true to the very best one knows.

Canon Farrar

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro

We are being asked to engage in a great social experiment, and the results of that experiment, if it is a failure, will be visited upon our children.

Ray Haynes

At this stage we have no clues as to what may have contributed to this failure. We will be taking the engine away for disassembly.

Alan Stray