Top 205 Failures Quotes

Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

There have been albums I’ve recorded in the past that have had success, and then there have been ones I’ve had extreme faith in, and they ended up as commercial failures.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost – on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures – joined with the similar failures of others – can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

In my career, I have learnt how to handle failures in a matured manner.

Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it’s a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea – that yes, this is my art, but it’s tied into business – the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.

If a woman is successful, then she’s deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we’re all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

I always said that when Madrid win, it wasn’t just because of Ronaldo, Kaka, or another, and when you lose, it is not fair to blame the failures on these people alone.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

There’s so many more failures than successes for actors. It’s like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public’s money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs – but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

Since I started my career very early, I have gone through the rigmarole of experiencing successes and failures.

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the ‘ledger.’

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing – whether it’s a hit, whether it’s not a hit, whether it’s a… your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it’s given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

Shrouded by the ‘dodgy dossier,’ which warped opaque intelligence, none of the stated war aims in Iraq spoke to the British national interest. Illusory dreams of bringing Western-style democracy to the Middle East were punctured by failures of planning and strategy, as catalogued before the Chilcot Inquiry.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

Prior to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – the first one in 2003 – I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I’m saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

I’ve never really been very good at marriage. It’s one of my failures. I’ve tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it’s something I’m doing.

Weimar lasted 14 years, the Third Reich only 12. Yet Weimar is always seen as a prelude to the Third Reich, which appears to have been created by Weimar’s failures.

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there’s a lot more risk there. It’s a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don’t own their failure, and if you don’t own your failures, you’re never going to own your successes.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

We’ve had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We’re human beings, and we’re not perfect. And we’re mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn’t get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things – dealing with failures and missteps in life – and it’s something that’s so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids’ movies.

As athletes, we’re defined by what we’ve accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together – failures as an athlete and as a person.

My first book, ‘To Engineer Is Human,’ was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

The key in telling stories that people relate to is, not surprisingly, vulnerability and authenticity. That means that letting people know the struggle behind your brand – the failures and mistakes – and how you got through them is really important.

My father’s failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn’t invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.

I learnt a lot from my failures.

I’m not sure I’d go back and do anything over in my life. I’ve definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I’d have missed out on so many lessons.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.

Failure is part of life. My failures have taught me more than my successes. So, it is important to fall and it is equally important to fall and rise.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – you’ve just got to be sure that it’s a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn’t go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn’t know what to do with the situation.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn’t attacked us, it’s because he can’t or because we’ve defeated him.

With stand-up, it’s more interesting to hear about people’s failures than their successes.