Wes Craven Quotes

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".

Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete victory.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not - that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

If you aren't a loser, you fight; you continue to fight, believe.

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And everything that didn't happen during that time just motivated me to do better.