Quotes about failure from interviews with remarkable people: how they lived through defeats, mistakes and rejections and what they learned. Each moment comes with video and context.
I never mastered one camera skill, but it didn't stop me from making movies
The Nobel laureate's summary book on how two systems of thought—fast and intuitive versus slow and deliberate—shape human judgment, and why neither can be trusted blindly.
A young writer returns to his provincial hometown after finishing university — a film about how hard it is for someone full of ambition and contempt for other people's compromises to notice he's already begun repeating…
I learned from my mistakes. Most of my best songs are the result of failures, pain and disappointments.
A series of interviews with major traders that adds up to an unexpected conclusion: market success rests not on a secret formula but on the discipline of controlling losses and on each trader's ability to work out an…
A portrait of a young man trying to live by strict rules of integrity inside a system where integrity itself is a professional and social liability.
You learn through working and through failure. Every actor should work. Every person should continue to be a student.
A practical methodology treating the launch of a new venture not as the execution of a finished plan but as a series of testable hypotheses about what people actually want.
A portrait of a boxer whose rage inside the ring and outside it is the same force, one that destroys everyone around him, himself included.
If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
About why well-run market leaders, making genuinely sound decisions, repeatedly lose to weak, cheap newcomers — and why the cause of their downfall turns out to be precisely their attentiveness to today's best customers.
A week in the life of a talented but luckless folk musician — a film about talent that isn't enough when timing and circumstance work against you.
If you're not willing to make mistakes, you'll never create anything new.
A candid account of running a company on the edge of collapse, written by someone who lived through it, offering no glossy success formulas but a clear-eyed look at making decisions when there is no correct answer.
The story of a court composer's envy toward a gift he was denied — a meditation on what happens when hard work collides with someone else's unaccountable genius.
I try to create characters who are not simply good or evil, but human.
A memoir by Pixar's co-founder on how to build an organization where creative failure is neither hidden nor punished but treated as part of the road to good films, and why candor inside a team matters more than any…
I don't regret my mistakes. They made me who I am. But there are things I wish I could reconsider.
An attempt by the founder of the world's largest hedge fund to turn his own painful failures into an explicit, written-down set of decision-making rules — and to build a company where even its founder is bound by them.
Life tests the writer. Only by enduring trials can he write something of substance.
About systems and people that don't merely withstand the blows of chance but grow stronger from them, and about why robustness and antifragility are fundamentally different qualities that get confused all the time.
The throne consumes even the best of men.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability does not prevent you from doing well
If you never fail, you're not trying hard enough. It's better to be bold and wrong than timid and right.
Success requires energy, persistence, and a willingness to make mistakes. I've never been afraid of failure because it's how we learn.
If something is important enough, you should try — even if the probable outcome is failure.
I've made plenty of mistakes. It's important to forgive yourself and learn. Life doesn't have to be perfect.
Life is full of hardship. Those who grow strongest learn to find opportunities in difficulty.
The worst that can happen is rejection. But rejection is part of the process, and I have learned to accept it
The important thing is that we have the freedom to do what we want.
One moment of inattention, one error by a young girl—and several lives change forever. This is not punishment for guilt, it is a metaphor for human imperfection.
Sometimes the greatest courage is silence. A hero often remains silent not because they have nothing to say, but because words cannot express their pain.
In literature, we're interested in people who make the wrong choices. Moral clarity is boring. Human life is messy and contradictory.
Make mistakes, but then learn from them and move forward.
Marriage is one evening on a beach stretched across a lifetime. Awkwardness, misunderstanding, attempts to join two incomplete halves into something whole.
We need a radical change in how we think, not just how we act. The system itself is the problem.
Pessimism isn't cynicism; it's a clearer way of seeing. When we expect less, we're not disappointed and can appreciate what we have.
It's okay not to be okay. Our culture's obsession with happiness makes sadness feel like a failure, when actually it's part of being human.
I am not perfect. I made mistakes. But I always learn from my mistakes and become better.
I have missed 9000 shots in my career. I have lost approximately 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. And I keep trying.
I was cut from the basketball team in high school. I looked at that list and started crying. But it made me hungry.
When you give everything and still lose, it's very painful. But life goes on, and we must be strong.
They have to have the time to fail as much as they can. You need to give them that freedom — to explore their instincts.
Failure is not an end. It is a reformulation. A person with grit sees failure as information, not a verdict.
Grit is passion and perseverance toward very long-term goals. It is the inability to give up.
Every loss taught me more than victory ever did. I never feared losing.
The hardest thing for us is to admit we're wrong. But when we do, it changes us and we become smarter.
History doesn't crawl, it jumps. What we call history is just the list of events that happened, not the ones that could have happened.
Success is not avoiding mistakes. Success is learning from mistakes quickly and moving forward.
The most interesting ideas come when you're willing to reject what you knew before.