Quotes About Failure

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential - and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn.

Maintaining longevity is a major part of success to me. So many people come into an industry quick, shoot to the top, then crash and burn.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

I then tell myself that the result is pitiful but the struggle worth it because I looked at color and I looked at the night and the river like I never had before and saw what I take so for granted with new eyes. Is there any activity that so rewards failure? These are toads that become flowers.

Why have these innovations not taken place? I hesitate to accuse philosophers (I consider myself to be one of them), although their vocation is to anticipate the knowledges and practices to come, and it seems to me that they have failed in this task. Preoccupied with day-to-day politics, they have not perceived the arrival of the contemporary.

If you remove a single transistor in the digital computer's central processor, the computer will fail.

You fucked up, mate. Looks like you're a goner.

Faith is the result of an agreement. When you agree to believe in something without a doubt, you invest your faith. If you have no doubt about what you believe, then for you it is truth, even though it may really be a lie. Your faith is so powerful that if you believe you are not good enough, you are not good enough! If you believe you will fail, you will fail, because that is the power and magic of your faith.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider our merit or our failure.

Aquello que no ha sido elegido por nosotros no podemos considerarlo ni como un mérito ni como un fracaso.

Az igazi jóság csak olyasvalaki iránt nyivlánulhat meg kristáltisztán és szabadon, aki semmiféle erÅ't nem képvisel. Az emberiség legalapvetÅ'bb, igazi erkölcsi próbaköve, a viszonya azokhoz, akik ki vannak neki szolgáltatva: az állatokhoz. S itt vallott az ember végzetes kudarcot, annyira végzeteset, hogy az összes többi ebbÅ'l fakadt.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

He was afraid to say it, because everything he had said so far failed to come out as intended, and these sincere words, too, would sound sarcastic to his colleague.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

I love winning. I don't like losing.