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Quotes About Failure

Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts
~ Aayush Jain
Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.
~ Steve Maraboli
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.
~ Unarine Ramaru
When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.
~ Seth Godin
It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year
~ Unknown
Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.
~ Onyi Anyado
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
~ Mark Cuban
Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business.
~ Doug Ducey
It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.
~ Sonny Mehta
We broke something, I think it was traction.
~ Carl Edwards
There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
~ Paul Newman
A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.
~ Erwin Rommel
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
~ Ani DiFranco
I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.
~ Garth Brooks
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.
~ Edgar Guest
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
~ Ayelet Waldman
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
~ Rachel Griffiths
Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.' Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in absinthe do I become entirely free and, when I drink it, I understand the symbolic mysteries of odour and of colour.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Those who earn their living by puppetry must satisfy the public demand, and so are to a large extent compelled to be conservative. As so often in other branches of the performing arts, it is only the amateur who can safely afford to experiment, to explore new forms and techniques, and to run the risk of failure.
~ Unknown
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
~ Peter Drucker
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
~ Peter F. Drucker