Failures Of Quotes

#1. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

Walter Prescott Webb

#2. What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

Nouriel Roubini

#3. The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'

Jimmy Fallon

#4. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#5. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is my favourite part, everyone loses something or somebody.

Deyth Banger

#7. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.

Westley Tusa

#8. Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Robert Redford

#10. My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#11. One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

Robert Genn

#12. But if you trace even the biggest of these conflicts down to its roots, what you find are entrenched biases, and these sort-of calcified failures of empathy.

Anonymous

#13. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

George MacDonald

#14. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Sydney J. Harris

#15. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

Henry Miller

#16. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

Michael Josephson

#17. Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Francine Rivers

#18. Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

George Carlin

#19. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

#20. What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Emma Goldman

#21. Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered.
"What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail."
"We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Michelle Sagara West

#22. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

Edward Tufte

#24. Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

Herman Kahn

#25. But you must remember that while you can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.

Amish Tripathi

#26. Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

Mary Kinzie

#27. What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

Rachel Cusk

#28. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future

ABC

#29. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

#30. One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

Ravi Zacharias

#31. One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.

Sarah Stillman

#32. It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Max Weber

#33. Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Dallas Willard

#34. The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Michael Lam

#35. The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

Sheila Walsh

#36. Hip Hop Generation "captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as "post-this" or "post-that."

Jeff Chain

#37. The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

Dan Scanlon

#38. To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Dallas Willard

#39. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners

Bodo Schafer

#40. There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.

Ryan Holiday

#41. Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Len Wein

#42. Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Edward Tufte

#43. Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Sinclair Lewis

#44. God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and missteps. He still stands near, arms open wide, ready to embrace you with a Father's love.

Max Lucado

#45. I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

#47. The Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs's dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname "the beige toaster," which did not enhance its popularity.

Walter Isaacson

#48. Empty him of his confidence by highlighting his failures so that therefore his head will be far more easily swelled with adulations and self-confidences.

Anonymous

#49. It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

John Cage

#50. Strikes made with precision, a moment of oneness with the weapon. He forgot his worries, forgot his failures, forgot even his rage. Just Kaladin and a spear.
As the world was meant to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#51. A person with a healthy self-esteem is comfortable in discussing matters of accomplishments and even failures or shortcomings.

John Mind

#52. The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

Mitt Romney

#53. * Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

#54. After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.

Golden Krishna

#55. Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.

Earl Nightingale

#56. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

Guillermo Del Toro

#57. I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.

Tim Story

#58. The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

Doc Hastings

#59. There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Steven Brust

#60. Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Robert Boswell

#61. It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself - loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

Nelson Algren

#62. One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

James Long

#63. You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.

Nirmala Srivastava

#64. God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures.

Joseph Prince

#65. I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

Dana Gould

#66. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Charles J. Givens

#67. It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

David Ogilvy

#68. Life is a beautiful mix of Success & Failures, its our responsibility to be creative to make it more beautiful....

Kris

#69. If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!

Assegid Habtewold

#70. We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

Robert E. Wells

#71. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#72. Every loss is a gain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. Sins of omission, Louis said.
You don't believe in sins.
I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Kent Haruf

#74. Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

Jared Leto

#75. President Trumps election speaks volumes about the blatant failures of the Obama administration.

Steven Magee

#76. Clearly, one of the great tasks of civilization is to create cultural mechanisms that protect us from the moment-to-moment failures of our ethical intuitions.

Sam Harris

#77. It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.

Thomas J. Watson

#78. Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Orison Swett Marden

#79. One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.

John C. Maxwell

#80. We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

J.M. Barrie

#81. We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#82. We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Leo Buscaglia

#83. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.

Bill Courtney

#84. Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard Baruch

#85. Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results.

Euginia Herlihy

#86. I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Jack Whittaker

#87. I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

Jay Leno

#88. Life is all of failures with a limited amount of success

Ganeshsaidheeraj

#89. I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn't pay to publicly point out the failings of the person providing your paycheck.

Donald G. Firesmith

#90. I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

Aubrey Plaza

#91. It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity.

Henry James

#92. Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Joseph Cornell

#93. The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

Cass R. Sunstein

#94. True success is the achievement of many failures

Miguel El Portugues

#95. I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

Craig Venter

#96. Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?

Stifyn Emrys

#97. There is nothing which indicates the inspiration of the Scriptures more than the factual and faithful record of men and their failures ... These records are for our warning and instruction. They show us how sinful man needs God.

Billy Graham

#98. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Eric Hoffer

#99. But when I failed, I convinced myself that the failures were evidence of the "real" me, and the successes were the "fake" me fooling people.

Megyn Kelly

#100. Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Pearl S. Buck