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.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

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.

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.