Quotes About Failure

L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these, like, giant ideas, and they put everything into it. And some people just fall flat on their face, and some people, you know, shoot like a rocket.

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

When your ex says "I miss you", that means the person they tried to replace you with has failed.

Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there's never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

Trust is the main part of any kind of love, if you lost it then you must be failed it.

Love never fails but people fails in how to love-Jesus never fails

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt."?Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions.

After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.

a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions. The

And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.

I stare out of the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving. In life as in writing as in any type of creation that sets off to be a success, knowable and inspiring.

You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you would later invoke many times with many of us: "try again." And you did. Thank God you did.

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don't.

Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.

I would say the biggest one is probably not being afraid to fail. I think that's the greatest gift you could give to anybody.