A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

In all our deeds the proper value and respect for time determines success or 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 guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

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

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

In America there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment repeated every day.

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Never fret for an only son the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Once you start a working on something don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.