Quotes About Failure

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

The media is really failing the American people.

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.

I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought I might as well make bad robots to kind of alleviate the pressure of that.

Nobody gets to the top without failing.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

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.

I hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

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.

I'm scared of failing. I'm scared to lose.

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

Everybody fails.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

A product can turn bad, not the production. When you start a film, you feel it will be great. But sometimes, as it progresses, it fails somewhere. You can't blame anyone for that. You can blame only your own intelligence!

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

When you don't win, you get called a failure.