John David Washington Quotes

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

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.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

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.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

I have had bad times, but I never lost my motivation to work and make an effort so that in the moments I got to play I could be at my best.