Quotes About Failure

Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it's very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure.

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

We must face up to the long-term failures of Britain's approach to immigration and make the argument for an effective, compassionate and liberal alternative.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.

Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.

'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.

You can be lucky for a few years, but in the end, your defects will emerge. The reality is different. People are watching you, and those who know how to play will progress, while those who don't will remain in the lower levels.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact song, an arrangement, a sound - and I fail. And so you can't even tell I was trying to do that thing. It makes sense in my own head but I'm incapable of copying.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

KNOW THAT YOUR BIGGEST RISK IS YOU It's tempting to think that projects fail because the world throws surprises at us: price and scope changes, accidents, weather, new management—the list goes on. But this is shallow thinking.