Quotes About Failure

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

The government never does anything successfully.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

People ask me how can I give them relationship advice when my marriage was a failure. I tell them staying put in a bad relationship is not success, leaving a terrible relationship successfully, is a success.

I have never successfully made an omelette.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I tried snowboarding before, and I suck at it.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.

In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make it almost impossible for startups to contribute and so on.

I was good at school but I thought I sucked at everything else. I was socially scared of making relationships. High school was a big fail as the social experiment that it is.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

It sucks when you lose.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'