Quotes about Failure

“Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.”

“The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.”

“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”

“Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever.”

“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”

“Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.”

“I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.”

“My life has been nothing but a failure.”

“I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.”

“And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.”

“Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.”

“The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.”

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”

“I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.”

“Don't come home a failure.”

“I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'”

“There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.”

“A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.”

“Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.”

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”

“A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.”