Quotes About Failure

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

The Congress had the opportunity to do a lot of good. It isn't as if they didn't have good people in the party. God knows why they failed. If after 65 years of governance you cannot provide drinking water to everyone then you should be ashamed of yourself.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.

I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.