I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you I think.

The pressures are intense because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Before this government came to power many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success because either one gets in the way of your work.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together and if you're really working you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Well the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and if you're not willing to confront failure you can never find out how good you are.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

So nevertheless what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.

This is true enough but success is the next best thing to happiness and if you can't be happy as a success it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper truer happiness in failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did then success would be no success and failure would be no failure to us.

The success and the failure are not my concern but His.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.