Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. – Andy Murray
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. – Demi Moore
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable. – Michael Morpurgo
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. – Joseph Barbera
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. – Mark Skousen
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. – Rickey Henderson
Failure? Scared to death of it. – Ryan Seacrest
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. – Desi Arnaz
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. – Kenneth L. Pike
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. – Eric Ries
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. – Brian Ferneyhough
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. – Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. – Guy Kawasaki
With failure, you just try again. – Judd Nelson
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. – John B. S. Haldane
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. – Elias Canetti
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. – Alberto Giacometti
