Quotes for Failure

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

Jim Lovell

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

Christopher Fowler

By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

Ravi Zacharias

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

Alan Arkin

Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.

Angela Rayner

My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.

Akshaye Khanna

I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.

Akshaye Khanna

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

Akshaye Khanna

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Nick Frost

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Brett Ratner

Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.

Nasser Hussain

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

Henry Paulson

An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.

Henry Paulson

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

Ken Howard

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

Alex Bregman

Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions.

Ari Melber

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

Edwin Catmull

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

Edwin Catmull

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Chris Grayling

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

Chris Grayling