Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

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.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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

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

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

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.

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

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.