Quotes About Persistence

I failed my HGV licence three times.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

The first time I baked, I failed a couple of times, and I made some mistakes and perhaps ended up with something inedible. Then I was a little bit more careful, and I learned how to do it right.

I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.

Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

I don't like failing at anything.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

Nobody gets to the top without failing.

Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing it is enough.

For me, I think failing is great, because if you fail fast and you learn how to fail, you can use that to build your next success.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.