If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure…

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

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'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…

— George Eliot

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

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

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

— Phil Ehart

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

— Lee Majors

Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40 years. It's…

— Nina Hoss

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk…

— Arlo Guthrie

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

— James Levine

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

— Mary Cheney

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

— Angela Davis

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

— Ron Perlman