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Quotes About Failure

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
~ Mignon' Talise Padilla
If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have no right to be.
~ Brandon L. Clay
If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have not right to be.
~ Brandon L. Clay
There's no thief like a bad movie.
~ Sam Ewing
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
~ Steven Spielberg
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.
~ Cassandra Clare
Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.
~ George Carlin
If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.
~ Judd Apatow
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
~ Douglas Coupland
Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
~ The Weeknd
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
~ Peter Tork
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
~ Seal
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.
~ Ronnie Apteker
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.
~ Adolf Hitler
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
~ Hadewijch
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
~ Berthe Morisot
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
~ Alan Greenspan
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
~ David Hume
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature
~ Wayne Grudem