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Quotes About Failure

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
~ James Surowiecki
I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Is it possible for Logan Paul to make a comeback or am I going to be a failed YouTuber?
~ Logan Paul
I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
~ Tom Stoppard
Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
~ Jack Keane
There are films that look very interesting when on paper, but things change while shooting. At times, things changed during post-production, and I see no reason to blame anything on anyone. It is a collaborative effort. If it failed, we should face it.
~ Kartik Aaryan
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
~ Brennan Manning
I've chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.
~ Reshma Saujani
Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
~ Irwin Redlener
If you continually lose the big one, people look at you as being a loser.
~ Arn Anderson
I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
~ Douglas Hodge
We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.
~ Diego Godin
It costs a lot to build bad products.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
In-house bodies of lawyers i.e. the Bar Council, and of doctors i.e. the Medical Council have notoriously failed to seek accountability of lawyers and doctors who have been misconducting themselves.
~ Prashant Bhushan
I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.
~ Jon Taffer
There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.
~ Stephen Gostkowski
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
~ Dean Kamen
In the car business, sometimes you crash.
~ Sergio Marchionne
My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
~ Conrad Hall
You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.
~ Bob Iger
I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.
~ Jack Conte
Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.
~ Ravi Subramanian
I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for low scores. It turned out I didn't have the talent.
~ Michael McIntyre
Football is cruel at times; it's difficult. When things go well, you're very good, and when they go badly, well, it's awful.
~ David de Gea