Quotes About Failure

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

This is really bad, when you create so many chances but you can't finish well.

Everybody's going to make mistakes, everybody's going to miss chances.

I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.

In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.

The populists always fail in their own terms. Let me be more specific, the protectionists always fail. They always end up delivering the sharpest fall in living standards to the people who are their biggest supporters.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we - and I'm supportive of all the issues that - that we talk about, but you need an economic - a robust, economic message that - that covers everybody.

My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.