Failure Quotes

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

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

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

With failure, you just try again.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.