I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

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.

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

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

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.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.