"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy." - Mason CooleyTweet
"It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone." - Edmond H. FischerTweet
"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold." - Edward BachTweet
"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." - Napoleon HillTweet
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." - George EliotTweet
"After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks." - Kurt StudentTweet
"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil." - H. L. MenckenTweet
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." - Johnny CashTweet
"As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away." - Dee Dee MyersTweet
"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert BrowningTweet