Quotes About Failure

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

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

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

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

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

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

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.

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.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.

But how can one criticise someone else's mother? One shouldn't, really... particularly as my first marriage failed.

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

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.