Famous Quotes
- I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
- Sam Donaldson on Failure
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby on Failure
- I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
- Darrell Issa on Failure
- 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.
- Roger Daltrey on Failure
- I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
- Cate Blanchett on Failure
- I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson on Failure
- I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar on Failure
- I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
- Amy Sedaris on Failure
- I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
- Sara Blakely on Failure
- I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
- Dave Matthews on Failure
- I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
- Natalie Goldberg on Failure
- I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
- Jonathan Kozol on Failure
- I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
- Branch Rickey on Failure
- I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
- Tony Kushner on Failure
- I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Alexander Payne on Failure
- I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
- Tiki Barber on Failure
- I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
- Elie Tahari on Failure
- I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
- Lucille Ball on Failure
- I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
- Ellen Page on Failure
- I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
- J. Paul Getty on Failure
- I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
- Sylvester Stallone on Failure
- I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
- Michael Buble on Failure
- I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
- Tennessee Williams on Failure
- I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
- T. Boone Pickens on Failure
- I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
- Shinzo Abe on Failure
- I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
- I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
- Charles M. Schwab on Failure
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns on Failure
- I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
- Rodney Alexander on Failure
- I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
- Gerry Beckley on Failure
- I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
- Jerry Saltz on Failure
- I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
- Michael Koryta on Failure
- I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
- Brett Favre on Failure
- I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
- Kristen Stewart on Failure
- I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
- Kristen Stewart on Failure
- 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 on Failure
- I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
- Tom Hopkins on Failure
- I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
- Mason Cooley on Failure
- I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
- Trent Reznor on Failure
- I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
- Nikki Giovanni on Failure
- I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
- George Allen on Failure
- I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
- Michael Baden on Failure
- I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
- Alice Foote MacDougall on Failure
- I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
- Alexander Wang on Failure
- I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely on Failure
- I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
- John Sherman Cooper on Failure
- I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
- I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
- Lisa Marie Presley on Failure
- I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
- Garry Shandling on Failure
- I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
- George Edmund Street on Failure
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