Relative Failure Quotes

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.