Top 56 Quotes About Great Failures
#1. Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.
Dwayne Johnson
#4. one of the great failures of human civilization has been its refusal to pay proper attention, or a proper wage, to those who perform the hard but essential primary task of growing our food.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
Mason Cooley
#8. 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
#9. We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
Lincoln Steffens
#10. It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone
#11. I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
Adam Hasner
#12. And if something great fails you, does that mean you yourselves are - failures? And if you yourselves are failures, does that mean - the human being is a failure? But if the human being is a failure: well then! come now!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony
#14. Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression.
Jim Powell
#15. Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.
Stephen Jay Gould
#16. There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.
Colin Montgomerie
#17. The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Wayde Goodall
#18. The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
#19. In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
Colin Powell
#20. A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.
Robert Penn Warren
#21. As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham
#22. There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.
Jack Nicholson
#24. One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
Michael Scheuer
#25. 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
#26. [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
#27. 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
#28. All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
Moliere
#29. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#30. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He
Rabindranath Tagore
#31. A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now.
Andrew Sturm
#32. Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
#33. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#34. The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a process.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin
#44. Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
Maria Montessori
#45. You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
Dave Chappelle
#46. Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail!
Abhishek Ratna
#48. All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
#49. Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#50. Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.
Arthur W. Pink
#51. A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
John Roos
#52. There are great lessons to be learn't in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. What challenges us, what should break us, can in the end be our greatest blessing. Because our failures can make us great. Our most basic of human adversities can inspire within us an almost superhuman strength. Our weaknesses are simply our untested wings waiting to be flown.
Tillie Cole
#54. More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
#55. I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
Neil Burger
#56. Despite the failures you've had, you can be great.
Jon Jones
