Quotes About Failure

I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

I had once decided to quit acting when Chattakari' didn't do well at the box office.

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.

My last couple of films, 'ABCD 2' and 'Rock On 2,' didn't do as well as expected. It affected me quite a bit, but then easier said than done, I had to stop thinking about it and continue doing what I love doing best!

We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.