Quotes About Failure

Before long, Commander Lovell—the man who had orbited the moon in a spacecraft that had done everything right—would learn what happens when a ship does everything wrong.

The length of the blackout was not absolutely fixed. If all went well, it would last about thirty-five minutes—a bit longer if the engine fired successfully and the ship slowed to 3,700 miles per hour and settled into orbit, a bit shorter if the engine failed to fire and the ship continued to speed along at 5,800 miles per hour. If something worse happened, the radio silence would last forever.

That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.

No importa cuántos fracasos puede que tenga en el futuro. Lo único que importa es que siga avanzando. El único fracaso real es el dejar de intentarlo.

sitting by a lamp more often brings / Not peace, but other things. / Beyond the light stand failure and remorse / Whispering Dear Warlock-Williams: Why, of course—

Melhor trabalhar e fracassar do que passar a vida dormindo.

what about a person who has failed at the only important task ever given him, someone responsible for the deaths of ones he loves and the driving of others into the darkness?

Success is like a turtle climbing a mountain. Failure is water running downhill.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Gutter Ball You don't think we're horrible parents? You take a kid bowling now, they have these rails that come up out of the gutters. So when the stupid kid rolls the ball, it has to hit a pin. Has to. We eliminated the gutter ball. Nice preparation for life. I think the gutter ball is really the only life lesson a kid really needs to have. You either do the thing you're doing right, or there's a huge ka-klunk sound

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.

So that went well. Not that I should have expected better. Inebriated middle-of-the-night calls are sort of destined to fail.

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

Other Bengalis gossiped about him and prayed their own children would not ruin their lives in the same way. And so he became what all parents feared, a blot, a failure, someone who was not contributing to the grand circle of accomplishments Bengali children were making across the country, as surgeons or attorneys or scientists, or writing articles for the front page of The New York Times.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.