Quotes for Failure

I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.

Jeff Van Gundy

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Shelley Fabares

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Michael Crawford

The failure of state education in so many white working class areas is utterly unacceptable. Not to talk about it or to have any answers for how we overcome it, equally so. Nor should we be tackling educational inequality affecting white working class kids at the expense of tackling the disadvantage facing young people from other backgrounds.

Wes Streeting

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

Sarah McLachlan

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

Mike McGavick

In terms of mindset, the fear of failure and letting go of it helped me change a lot. After that I got hungry for runs.

Mayank Agarwal

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Niklas Zennstrom

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Ruth Rendell

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Molly Ringwald

After about nine blockbusters, I had forgotten how to deal with a failure when 'Jaan-Emaan' released. I was shaken.

Sajid Nadiadwala

We never tell our kids how to handle success, we never teach them what to do during times of failure. Someone should tell them to mellow down while they experience success so that they may have a long successful stint.

Sajid Nadiadwala

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I faced failure with my first film, 'Khamoshi.' All of us have our highs and lows, except Lata Mangeshkar.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Mike Peters

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.

Charlie Brooker