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" The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. "

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" I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. "

" Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. "

" We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor. "

" I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. "

Albert Einstein

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure. "

" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "

" Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. "

" If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them. "

" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "

" I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. "

Heston Blumenthal

" If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. "

" You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. "

" Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. "

" Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career. "

" Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all. "

" Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. "

" If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. "

" The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. "

" Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. "

" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

George C. Wolfe

" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "

Thomas A. Edison

" 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. "

" Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. "

" We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "

" The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. "

" Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. "