Quotes About Failure

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.

You may be the best team in the world, but you can't win all the tournaments. That's what the media does not understand.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

I won't play any blame games for my films that didn't work. But I've been working towards getting good roles. Even Abhishek Bachchan became a superstar after delivering 17 flops.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.

It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.