Quotes for Failure

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

James Clapper

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

Alia Bhatt

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Abhay Deol

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Tony Fadell

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

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

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.

Sidney Buchman

Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.

Angela Rayner

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

I didn't like talking about my divorce. I think I viewed that as something that was embarrassing or a failure.

Pete Holmes

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Michael Savage

My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.

Nithya Menen

Chernobyl happened in April of 1986. A few months earlier, in January 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It did not have the impact on the environment and the amount of lives that Chernobyl did, but it was the result of the same exact problem: a failure of a lot of people and institutions over a long period of time.

Craig Mazin

Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business.

Doug Ducey

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Success is transient and so is failure.

Mandira Bedi

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

Linda Perry