No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.