Quotes About Failure

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.

The drinking continued, Chickasaw warriors failed to rally to the king's cause, and men who might have been killed in battle died by the bottle instead. On a different level, the failure of Chickasaws to come through for the British can be explained by simple geography: they were not in the direct line of fire.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

As captain of India, the world was at my feet and then I did not find myself in the team. Not many captains would find themselves in that position.

I am terrible at cards.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's in the 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' film. There's a lot of far greater people than me who have made mistakes in their careers... There's loads of people who have made stuff that isn't good and never get asked about it.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

I have always been 100% regimental and I haven't done what I should do and sometimes you can be a casualty of your own success.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.