Quotes About Failures

#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. We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish them can you really be free and no longer assailed by them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,

Kristin Neff

#9. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

Marianne Williamson

#10. The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mencius

#11. Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

Jack Canfield

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Failing one time - or even several times - doesn't make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

Frank Sonnenberg

#17. God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

Tony Evans

#18. We give up too soon.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#20. It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.

Robert Greene

#21. 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

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Robert Genn

#24. It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

George Will

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

Dalai Lama

#28. 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

#29. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Orrin Woodward

#30. War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Karl Marlantes

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

T.D. Jakes

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

George Carlin

#36. 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

#37. Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. Victory is not in winning; victory is in defeating failures.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I don't think anyone who tries something they love is a failure. I think it's the people who don't try who are failures.

Kim Culbertson

#40. 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

#41. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

Jen Lancaster

#42. There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

Freeman Dyson

#43. 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

#44. You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Barack Obama

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

Bow Wow

#48. One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.

Deanna Raybourn

#49. An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.

Craig M. Mullaney

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Jack Canfield

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

Mary Kinzie

#54. You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

Richard Louv

#55. ...we'd be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there'd be only acceptance - never shame - in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.

AngstGoddess003

#56. 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

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

ABC

#58. Look around your competitors and learn from them.
Look within for your talents and exploit them.
Look back at your failures and learn from them.
Look forward to your successes and reach for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#59. I will walk where failures fear to walk.

Og Mandino

#60. Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.

Carlos Wallace

#61. It's easy to blame others for your failures - Dad

Bhrigu Chadha

#62. 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

#63. Your biggest failure becomes your best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

#64. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz

#65. Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

Cory Booker

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

Ravi Zacharias

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Cormac McCarthy

#70. Don't let your failures define you.
Let them refine you.

Callie Khouri

#71. I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a ... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

Lee Daniels

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

Dallas Willard

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

Michael Lam

#74. How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

Claudia Rankine

#75. 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

#76. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.

Boniface Kamau Zablon

#77. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

John C. Maxwell

#78. I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Warren Buffett

#79. Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!

E. M. Forster

#80. 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

#81. Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.

Audrey Phillips

#82. 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

#83. I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

David Duchovny

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Harry understood that those left behind - the failures and the deformed, the suffering and the dead - are not just equal in soul, but that they are we and we are they. Struggle as we may for distinction, soon enough we fail, and, without exception, follow.

Mark Helprin

#90. Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

Joe Gibbs

#91. 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

#92. So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Marcel Proust

#93. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

Ashraf Ghani

#96. We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

Steven Johnson

#97. The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Dorothy Day

#98. 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

#99. How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
By watching how you correct yours.
How do children learn to overcome their failures?
By watching how you overcome yours.
How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
By watching you forgive yourself.

William Martin

#100. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Debasish Mridha