Quotes About Failure

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

'iCarly' was one of my first major jobs, actually. I went into that audition and completely failed at it. I completely bombed... I forgot my lines. When I forget my lines, I kind of get angry. They had me do it again; I remembered them, and I booked it.

I've had a lot of good nights, and ideally, I don't want to be remembered for a bad night.

I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history. But I can't do nothing about that.

I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.

Everyone remembers the shot you couldn't stop.

Everybody out here has to get better and has to rep and has to learn and has to make mistakes, make plays, do good things, do bad things and learn from them.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Education in Bavaria is tough. You fail sports, you have to repeat the year.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter.

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.