Top 63 Quotes About Past Failures
#1. Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.
Audrey Phillips
#2. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future
ABC
#3. Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
Karen Salmansohn
#5. 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
#6. We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.
John Vasconcellos
#7. The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
Henry Petroski
#8. Believe me, Michael:
Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.
I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,
Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,
You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you.
T. S. Eliot
#9. Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.
Raymond E. Feist
#10. A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.
Gary Chapman
#11. I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
Vanessa L. Williams
#12. To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.
Conrad Hilton
#13. Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
Walter Schloss
#14. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations
Charles F. Glassman
#15. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
#16. Satan seeks to build upon past failures, disappointments and weaknesses.
Sandie Freed
#17. The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith
#18. Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.
Jim George
#19. Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass
Ze Frank
#22. Take away your eyes from your past failures, current limitations, and future fears. Be hopeful, believe in yourself, be bold, and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#23. Don't be bound by the past and its failures. But don't forget its lessons either.
Billy Graham
#24. Ben Says: Your greatness is in your successful future ahead of you. Not in the failures in the past you left behind.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#25. We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
Frances E. Willard
#26. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
Joseph Brodsky
#28. I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
Colum McCann
#29. We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.
Filipp Golikov
#30. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles R. Swindoll
#31. Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I'll use it to create my world.
Taylor Stevens
#32. Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?
Miyuki Miyabe
#33. The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
William Robertson Nicoll
#34. Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore
#35. The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
#36. Father, create in us a new beginning. Help us to forget the failures of the past and allow You to write a new resolution for our lives.
Various
#37. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
Laura Aranda
#38. One of my greatest failures:
I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.
One of my greatest achievements:
I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.
Munia Khan
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Matt Chandler
#43. The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.
Gary Chapman
#44. 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
#45. One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
James Long
#46. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens
#47. This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Don Marquis
#48. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#49. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda Saraswati
#50. The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Daniel Wallace
#52. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Hugh Evans
#53. Footsteps of success,
are trailed by fading footprints,
of failures past..
J. Benson
#54. They that fail to understand their dreams, visions and aspirations in life and the real steps to take to make dreams a reality shall always have realities of life teaching them the had I knows of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#55. You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones ... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.
Pierre Omidyar
#56. A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.
George Gilder
#57. The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
Rush Limbaugh
#58. Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#59. An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
Henry Petroski
#60. Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1
Santosh Avvannavar
#61. 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
#62. Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
Samuel Johnson
#63. What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Og Mandino
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