Top 100 Quotes About Failures
#1. We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#2. I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.
Emma Roberts
#4. Our portion is not constantly looking back at our fears and failures
Sunday Adelaja
#5. The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Nelson Algren
#6. Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.
Evinda Lepins
#7. God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
Philip Yancey
#8. Set backs and failures are the major motivations in life.Some are so painful that don't kill maybe that's why they make me strong, immune and a reason to fight with myself.
Himmilicious
#9. Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success.
Farshad Asl
#10. You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
John Poindexter
#11. Charles L. Allen once said, "When you say a person or situation is hopeless, you are slamming a door in the face of God." Ouch. It is easy to focus on the doors being slammed (rejection, illness, fatigue, failures) and not see things from God's perspective. He never leaves us.
Celeste Palermo
#12. Haters ... are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.
Joe Rogan
#13. I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance - that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#14. You are standing at the foot of His cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in Him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#15. Success can make anyone look good, it is the failures that reveal the true face of a man.
Apoorve Dubey
#16. First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
Mitchell Reiss
#17. Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.
Watchman Nee
#18. [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... ] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
Seneca The Younger
#19. It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
#20. I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.
June Hunt
#21. As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#22. It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#23. Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#24. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#25. 'I have nothing to offer you but a lifetime's worth of failures and misfortune,' Sergio said with damp eyes,
'but they are yours if you want them.'
And for some reason buried deep in the incomprehensible mystery that is woman, she did want them. Very much.
Josh Wagner
#26. We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!
Zig Ziglar
#27. Your failures should motivate you to look at your life goals from a different angle
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
James Dyson
#29. A boy trained to break into secure facilities? Perhaps Kowaski wasn't entirely responsible for today's failures after all. Oops.
Dennis Staginnus
#30. Little failures add up ... till disappointed, they give up. Somewhere in their heart, they know they've lost. Just. Like. You.
Kouhei Kadono
#31. One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.
David A. Noebel
#32. Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. But I do love the world, I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world.
Loren Eiseley
#34. And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
Chuck Klosterman
#35. That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person
Richelle Mead
#36. If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life
that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.
Jack Canfield
#37. The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward
#39. The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#40. Pride will leave you with nothing more than what you began with, expectations not exceeding more than the failures you never accounted for.
Don Swann II
#41. Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society.
Robert Greene
#42. What you do doesn't define you. You can't let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.
Taylor York
#43. Skin-that smooth plump sweetly fragrant sac upon which life scrawls the record of our failures and exhaustion
Jennifer Egan
#44. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
John C. Maxwell
#45. The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Randy Pausch
#46. Allowing the failures of others to control your life is to allow them to control your future.
Jonah Books
#47. If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
Napoleon Hill
#48. You have the subconscious mind that sometimes is attracting tragedy, attracting bad things, because you want to be a victim. Because to be a victim is to justify a lot of frustrations and failures in your life ... You want to be successful? The universe is helping you.
Paulo Coelho
#49. There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
George Jean Nathan
#50. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Laurence J. Peter
#51. Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
Jim Rohn
#52. I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
Kevin O'Leary
#53. We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#54. In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.
Ichiro Suzuki
#55. Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will)
he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.
Edward Lewis Wallant
#56. We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.
Bruce Barcott
#57. When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
Raghav Bahl
#58. My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
Tim Howard
#59. The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.
Dana Arcuri
#60. Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.
Girdhar Joshi
#61. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
#62. Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.
Steve Martin
#63. I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it.
Kyle Maynard
#64. ...Laying blame for the global financial crisis on any single individual, let alone on an eighty-three year old man, seems as ethically flawed as some of the broader moral failures permeating society in the lead-up to the crisis.
Jeremy Balkin
#65. The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#66. God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son's hand and nailed them to the cross.
John Piper
#67. I can forgive a man's past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it's his religion.
Nicole Williams
#68. Identify with failures in others by listing yours.
Johnny Hunt
#69. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
#71. Recognize your failures when they happen but don't dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you've done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.
Jason Versey
#72. I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran
#73. The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn't wishful thinking. It's the rule.
A.A. Gill
#74. You don't have to be successful on a grand scale like winning a talent competition or writing a New York Times bestseller - if you have enough small things that you can be successful at then eventually they outshine all your failures.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#75. How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.
Toni Sorenson
#76. If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.
Tony Fadell
#77. Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
Bill Gates
#78. Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
Oprah Winfrey
#79. All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
Moliere
#80. It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures ... that is devishly hard!
Vaclav Havel
#81. The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new ... is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.
Eric Hoffer
#82. Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Theodore Dalrymple
#83. Here are our failures, and here is our greatness; we did not mean to hurt you, and we forgive you for our death.
Orson Scott Card
#84. Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures ... All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled.
Eowyn Ivey
#85. Our lives are a little like a milkshake. Ingredients get mixed together. Some of the ingredients are unimpressive by themselves. Some - rejections, disappointments, failures - are awful at the time. Yet God shakes them up and pours them out into a concoction that is delicious and good.
Max Lucado
#86. You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
Guy Finley
#87. A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#89. There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
Tom Krause
#90. In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
Tim Harford
#91. You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden
#92. What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
Robin Sharma
#93. You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
Dejan Stojanovic
#95. Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd
#96. Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.
Neelie Kroes
#97. Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Paul Di Filippo
#98. Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.
Peace Pilgrim
#99. Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which have resulted are due to men's coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.
Watchman Nee
