Quotes for Failure

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Gregory Benford

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Mike Farrell

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 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

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I love my flops. Look at my life: my failure that broke my heart made me stronger.

Pooja Bhatt

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

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Judith Butler

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

Douglas Hodge

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

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

John P. Kotter

Anytime LeBron is on your team, you're playing for a championship. It's not a secret. If he's on your team, it's pretty much like you go to the Finals and try to win a championship. If you don't win it, it's kind of a failure.

Alex Caruso

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Ali Larter