Quotes for Failure

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

Greg Berlanti

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

Dominic Grieve

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

George Hickenlooper

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

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

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

Gagan Biyani

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

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

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

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

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

California's High Speed Rail Project is a failure, and not one more taxpayer dime should go towards this money pit project.

Michelle Steel

The California High Speed Rail Project is a failure.

Michelle Steel

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Will C. Barnes

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.

Dave Rubin

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

Jordan Burroughs