Quotes About Failure

My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.

It's the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn't mean I regret whatever choices I've made over the years. No, not even 'Kaiyethum Doorathu!'

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.

For any girl who has a dream, they just need to go for it. I think sometimes our fears hold us back, and it's about having no fears and living with no regrets. Whether you fail or you succeed, just make sure you have no regrets.

I don't mind if I fail or if I succeed. No matter what, I want to look back with no regrets.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.

Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I've gotten rejected a lot.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I got rejected from journalism school!

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.