Failure Quotes

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Failure is a part of success.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.