Quotes About Failure

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.

Be Courageous: Succeed or Fail Monumentally!

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career.

Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.