Quotes About Failure

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.