"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

The biggest threat to innovation is internal politics and an organizational culture, which doesn’t accept failure and/or doesn’t accept ideas from outside, and/or cannot change.

"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."

"Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n аw. That's it; end ay fuckin story."

"Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

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

"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success."

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure."

"You have not failed until you quit trying."

"The failure of the White House to produce relevant documents is reason enough for any senator to oppose this nomination. The administration cannot treat the Senate with such disrespect without some consequences,"

"If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises."

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide."

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."

"When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us."

"I have learned to fail. And I have had my say."

"It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success."

"The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures."

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

"When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work"