Quotes About Failure

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.