Quotes about failure

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you’re a good entrepreneur, you’re not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You’ve got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Richard Branson

Unfortunately the main reason most people are not rich is because they are terrified of losing. Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Mark Cuban

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’

Florence Scovel Shinn

If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.

Barbara Sher

Failure means, that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale.

Charles Buxton

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F. Scott Fitzgerald