Quotes About Failure

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

He had a dream and it shot him.

One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once.' But that bid for glory was a failure. Most of the boys could say that, and so that cheapened the distinction too much. ~From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Scene where the neighbor boys were lamenting over Tom's apparent drowning.

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

Cahill intended the Telharmonium to transmit music through phone lines to paying subscribers, but the venture failed.

For some reason, I've been thinking more and more about my mother and the way her life failed her, humiliated her with impulses beyond her command, broke her with year after year of the same.

despite rational objections, technology's failure is overrun by the onslaught of myth.

I shouldn't be surprised . . . This is Tom. This is what Tom does best. He lets you down.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.

School, as you might imagine, was a terrific failure. Although

When reason fails, the devil helps!