I failed first grade which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure like you're stupid.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself I have failed three times and what happens when he says I am a failure.

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

We failed but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all in which case you have failed by default.

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

I mean I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know loss whether it be death illness separation. I mean the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

But when I lose my temper I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical which may be masochistic of me.