Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career or your life.

And obviously with hindsight now now knowing what went on in the company it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company most senior person in the United Kingdom come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often as it has me when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I knew that there were several among African-American leaders who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

With engineering I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.