The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure and that's if we quit.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure there was no such thing as just getting over it.

With engineering I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Nothing fails like failure.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Something is wanting and something must be done or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong you pull that parachute and the whole plane goes down slowly.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason I am ready to give everything for Japan.

You cannot learn anything from success you only learn from failure.

But whatever my failure I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession just as my grandfathers were in theirs in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure and your people know that and are pessimistic therefore about trying something again is very high.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher if you only get three things right out of 10 you're considered a failure.

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried frustrated with a very sad life but he was a Marxist.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood guts and glory' approach through my whole life.