Quotes About Failure

Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb. None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, "So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far." Edison replied with confidence, "Really? Haven't we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?

Dysfunctional systems will fall under their own weight. Let them.

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness.

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.

The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

My life, my failures. I hope that gives people the lesson to rebuild their own lives.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

I did not develop a recipe for my mothers biryani. I tried, and I failed, and so I made my own.