We do not know in most cases how far social failure and success are due to heredity and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

I think I've always been somebody since the deaths of my father and brother who was afraid to hope. So I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Once you can accept failure you can have fun and success.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Success is 99 percent failure.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures and what they attribute to us as failure.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser it's like living fertiliser because you're forced on yourself.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

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

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

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again in sickness and in health in success and in failure with anticipation and with dread.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

I may be a successful football player but I feel like such a failure.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.