I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it…

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

— Daniel D. Palmer

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

— Moby

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

— Gloria Swanson

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just…

— Bret McKenzie

I have a lot of friends who have had very quick success, then failure, whereas I've had failure, failure, failure, then success.

— Jack Savoretti

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times,…

— Maya Angelou

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part…

— Craig Bellamy

Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do…

— Kenny Smith

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not…

— Samuel Johnson

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with…

— Henri Poincare

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some…

— Anatole France

“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often comes to…

— Marcel Proust

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

— Francis Bacon

“He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.”

— Francis Bacon

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe