Successful Failure Quotes

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.

You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Even if you win the rat-race, you’re still a rat.

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.