Quotes for Failure

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

David Levering Lewis

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

Michael Frome

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Simon Hoggart

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

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

Felix Dennis

Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.

Gagan Biyani

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

Marissa Mayer

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

John Connolly

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

Henry B. Eyring

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Fred Allen

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

I have never feared failure.

Anh Do

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Mike Binder

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

Mani Ratnam

It's impossible to make 'Hum Paanch' again. Some people tried but it was a failure.

Ashok Saraf

I would be lying if I'd say success and failure doesn't matter because they do. For now, my biggest joy is that I am able to bring you so much work, which I think is also a success.

Amit Sadh

I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion.

Nick Kroll

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alan Hansen

Failure is a very personal thing and everybody goes through it very personally.

Kirron Kher

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban