I Feel Like A Failure Quotes

#1. I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Scott A. Sandage

#2. I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Jane Wagner

#3. If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Chris Hadfield

#4. Also, I feel that crying is almost
like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever
totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

John Green

#5. The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

Dylan Moran

#6. If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.

Viola Davis

#8. I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#9. 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

#10. The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Meryl Streep

#11. I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre

#12. I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

Erika M. Anderson

#13. There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Kevin Smith

#14. I don't think in terms of failure ... I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

Whoopi Goldberg

#15. I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Sedaris

#16. How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

Toni Sorenson

#17. Mistakes don't make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

Johnston McCulley

#19. I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

Maria Semple

#20. I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.

Paul Kelly

#21. I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Ben Affleck

#22. It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Shelley Fabares

#23. I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Marc Forster

#24. It was hard to feel like somebody didn't like me. It felt like such a failure. I don't care as much now. It's really great. It's like I can finally eat spicy food without the gut ache later, or something similar. I have a stomach for other people not stomaching me. Or at least I am working on it.

Amy Poehler

#25. Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

James Marsh

#26. I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton

#27. I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

Nina Jacobson

#28. I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

Nate Lowman

#29. I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

Thomas Jones

#30. Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#31. Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.

Paul McKenna

#32. If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.

Yancy Lael

#33. Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

#34. Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

Kathryn Hahn

#35. She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. And part of him, a compact, dark lump of meanness buried deep in his chest, had been glad. Let her feel useless. Let her feel like a failure. Let her see that he could do things she never could.

Kiersten White

#37. I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

Keith Teare