Quotes About Failure

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

It has become routine for national politicians to blame Europe. When something works, they claim it as their success. When something doesn't work, then Europe is to blame.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

I never get to think about myself when I do films. I started in advertising, so I always have to think about what my client and my audience things. If a film doesn't work, it's a big failure.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

Great coaches can't win always in life.

There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.

There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.

I think second place is the first loser in the competition.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

You can make loads of great saves, but if you concede, it's, 'That's what we will show the world.'

People never confess to failure. They should.

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.