Werner Herzog Quotes

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.