Quotes About Failure

They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other's phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they were, they could not bear the crude weight, the rank smell and the ripe taste of real flesh. It is always a dangerous experiment to act out a fantasy; they had undertaken the experiment rashly and had failed…

I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.

I really think if I do not get the diamond tiara my whole trip to London will be quite a failure

Kate looked up at her, hollowed-eyed. She wouldn't be use to failure) No. He tried to fix it himself. He self-medicated with drink.

This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B.

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

I'm one of those people that develop late, so what if these are my peak years in baseball? I would never know unless I put myself out there, and if I fail, I fail.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.

I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.

I finished tech college with just one A-level, which was an E in English, because I spent most of my time drinking and faffing around. Having one A-level is a bit like having a car with one wheel - pretty useless. So I ended up working on building sites.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

I kind of want to continue to fail, because it's easier for me to think of what I want to do next. Whereas if I succeed I might have to follow that path.