Top 462 Failure Quotes

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

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.

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.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.