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.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

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

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

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

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

War remains the decisive human failure.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

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

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.