Quotes About Failure

A lot of teams with expectations crumble.

When you have a dream in mind and you want it so bad and you fail, it crushes you.

Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.

It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

I was scared of running off to be a comedian and then having to come back with my tail between my legs.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.

But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.