Quotes About Failure

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.