Quotes About Failure

I was so frustrated after 2016 with the Republican Party. When we had the House, the presidency and the Senate, and we had a pretty fair Supreme Court, I really expected to see all of these things that Republicans have wanted for so long finally come to fruition, but then it all kind of fell flat on its face.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

I was so sure 'Doli Saja Ke Rakhna' would do well, but when it didn't I lapsed into depression.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

I suck at surfing. I can't pull myself up.

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.

Even if Donald Trump had lost the 2016 election, instead of won it in a surprise, the media's coverage of his campaign and supporters would have been a horrific failure. They presented that race as unwinnable for Trump and as if his support was inexplicable.

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

If God were omnipresent and omniscient in any literal sense, he wouldn't have bothered to make the universe at all. There is no success where there is no possibility of failure, no art without the resistance of the medium.

You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)

Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.

Well, I remember a story once where a smith forgot to use one last nail on a horse's shoe, and the shoe came off at the worst time and the horse went lame, and the rider of the horse was tossed and killed, and failed to deliver a message which kept a king from riding into a trap and his kingdom fell when he was killed. So a kingdom was lost, all for the want of a nail.' 'So what nail did we overlook?

And evil is most adept at seeing what it wants to see. That's its weakness. It doesn't anticipate the possibility of failure.

The most astonishing thing about Jimmy's rise was not his age, for the Mockers were of the opinion that as soon as a boy was ready to try thieving, he should be turned loose. Failure had its own rewards. A poor thief was quickly a dead thief. As long as another Mocker was not put at risk, there was little loss in the death of a thief of limited talents. No, the most astonishing fact of Jimmy's rapid rise was that he was nearly as good as he thought he was.