Quotes about Failures

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. Votes: 4

Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success! Votes: 3

Failures are the stepping stones to success. Votes: 3

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes. Votes: 3

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant Votes: 3

Failures are easier to repeat than successes. Votes: 3

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable. Votes: 3

Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts. Votes: 3

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners. Votes: 3

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. Votes: 3

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. Votes: 3

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure. Votes: 3

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ... Votes: 3

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Votes: 3

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. Votes: 3

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. Votes: 3

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Votes: 3

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them. Votes: 3

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds. Votes: 3

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. Votes: 3

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Votes: 3

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving. Votes: 3

Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom. Votes: 3

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. Votes: 3

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do. Votes: 3

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces. Votes: 3

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers Votes: 3

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. Votes: 3

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are. Votes: 3

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. Votes: 3

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment. Votes: 3

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Votes: 2

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. Votes: 2

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures. Votes: 2

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. Votes: 2

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! Votes: 2

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Votes: 2

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Votes: 2

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Votes: 2

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. Votes: 2

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. Votes: 2

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Votes: 2

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. Votes: 2

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Votes: 2

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. Votes: 2

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Votes: 2

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. Votes: 2

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own. Votes: 2

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Votes: 2

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. Votes: 2

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. Votes: 2

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Votes: 2

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. Votes: 2

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'. Votes: 2

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment. Votes: 2

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Votes: 2

Wars are men's failures. Votes: 0

Develop success from failures. Votes: 0

Past failures unlock future successes Votes: 0

Unhappy failures need not apply. Votes: 0

Success is outliving your failures Votes: 0

More excuses for more failures. Votes: 0

Great men have big failures. Votes: 0

Haste in every business brings failures. Votes: 0

Don't let your failures define you. Votes: 0

There are no failures, only quitters Votes: 0

relations are the failures of life.. Votes: 0

God's 'failures' are really man's failures ... Votes: 0

Ignore past failures and forge ahead. Votes: 0

Talk about your failures without apologizing. Votes: 0

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons. Votes: 0

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes. Votes: 0

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures. Votes: 0

Leaders who won't own failures become failures. Votes: 0

Success has many fathers; failures have none. Votes: 0

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. Votes: 0

I even feel grateful for the failures. Votes: 0

Success has made failures of many men. Votes: 0

There are no failures - only feedback. Votes: 0

In relationshipsthere are no failures. Just experiences. Votes: 0

I will work when failures seek rest. Votes: 0

I am a product of my failures, Votes: 0

99% of failures come from people who make excuses. Votes: 0

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying. Votes: 0

The failures and successes are necessary for learning. Votes: 0

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. Votes: 0

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats" Votes: 0

Keep trying; failures increase the probability of success. Votes: 0

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats Votes: 0

Identify with failures in others by listing yours. Votes: 0

In relationships... there are no failures. Just experiences. Votes: 0

All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Votes: 0

We women adore failures. They lean on us. Votes: 0

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. Votes: 0

Don't bury your failures, let them inspire you. Votes: 0

It takes many, many failures to reach success. Votes: 0

A language is a map of our failures Votes: 0

Let your failures refine you, not define you. Votes: 0

Stop judging your life only by the failures. Votes: 0

I just tried to build on my failures. Votes: 0

I will walk where failures fear to walk. Votes: 0

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Votes: 0

What you call mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. Votes: 0

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations. Votes: 0

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures. Votes: 0

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories. Votes: 0

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. Votes: 0

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes. Votes: 0

All my successes have been built on my failures. Votes: 0

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character. Votes: 0

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses. Votes: 0

All failures are so because they lack social interest. Votes: 0

My best successes came on the heels of failures. Votes: 0

The only failures are those who fail to try. Votes: 0

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff. Votes: 0

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Votes: 0

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures. Votes: 0

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes. Votes: 0

There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience. Votes: 0

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad. Votes: 0

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly. Votes: 0

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder. Votes: 0

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. Votes: 0

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. Votes: 0

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Votes: 0

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them. Votes: 0

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character. Votes: 0

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes Votes: 0

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures. Votes: 0

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. Votes: 0

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. Votes: 0

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? Votes: 0

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes. Votes: 0

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments. Votes: 0

Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success. Votes: 0

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? Votes: 0

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. Votes: 0

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success Votes: 0

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought. Votes: 0

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Votes: 0

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy. Votes: 0

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow! Votes: 0

All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures. Votes: 0

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. Votes: 0

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. Votes: 0

God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures. Votes: 0

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. Votes: 0

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. Votes: 0

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. Votes: 0

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures. Votes: 0

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures. Votes: 0

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival. Votes: 0

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures. Votes: 0

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures. Votes: 0

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. Votes: 0

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects. Votes: 0

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them. Votes: 0

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. Votes: 0

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. Votes: 0

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed Votes: 0

We are all failures - at least the best of us are. Votes: 0

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome Votes: 0

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Votes: 0

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. Votes: 0

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate. Votes: 0

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements. Votes: 0

Errors, failures, They are just experiences that will obligate you to evolve. Votes: 0

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek. Votes: 0

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them Votes: 0

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible. Votes: 0

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. Votes: 0

Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future. Votes: 0

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others. Votes: 0

Even while in the midst of failures, focus on your future victories. Votes: 0

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare. Votes: 0

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life. Votes: 0

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. Votes: 0

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks. Votes: 0

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. Votes: 0

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket. Votes: 0

You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures. Votes: 0

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones. Votes: 0

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. Votes: 0

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. Votes: 0

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused. Votes: 0

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society. Votes: 0

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. Votes: 0

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success. Votes: 0

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. Votes: 0

So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures? Votes: 0

Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures. Votes: 0

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business. Votes: 0

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. Votes: 0

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies. Votes: 0

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures. Votes: 0

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate. Votes: 0

Remind children that their successes and failures are not representations of their worth. Votes: 0

If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder. Votes: 0

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day. Votes: 0

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes. Votes: 0

You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success. Votes: 0

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. Votes: 0

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things. Votes: 0

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5) Votes: 0

Your success is determined by how much you can really learn from your failures. Votes: 0

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Votes: 0

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. Votes: 0

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. Votes: 0

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. Votes: 0

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures. Votes: 0

Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets. Votes: 0

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. Votes: 0

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will. Votes: 0

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes. Votes: 0

I am not shame of my failures, they were necessary for my ultimate success. Votes: 0

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them. Votes: 0

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. Votes: 0

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures Votes: 0

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures. Votes: 0

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories. Votes: 0

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Votes: 0

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. Votes: 0

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful Votes: 0

I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more. Votes: 0

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities. Votes: 0

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Votes: 0

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others. Votes: 0

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. Votes: 0

I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it. Votes: 0

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. Votes: 0

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures. Votes: 0

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. Votes: 0

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products. Votes: 0

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. Votes: 0

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures. Votes: 0

A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success. Votes: 0

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. Votes: 0

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. Votes: 0

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. Votes: 0

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves. Votes: 0

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. Votes: 0

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Votes: 0

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. Votes: 0

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. Votes: 0

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness. Votes: 0

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. Votes: 0

No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures. Votes: 0

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success Votes: 0

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. Votes: 0

I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them. Votes: 0

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? Votes: 0

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. Votes: 0

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. Votes: 0

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding. Votes: 0

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Votes: 0

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes. Votes: 0

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives. Votes: 0

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Votes: 0

God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us. Votes: 0

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. Votes: 0

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart. Votes: 0

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. Votes: 0

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that. Votes: 0

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures. Votes: 0

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures. Votes: 0

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Votes: 0

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. Votes: 0

Know where your money is because we're going to see bank failures, one after another. Votes: 0

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. Votes: 0

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. Votes: 0

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step. Votes: 0

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase. Votes: 0

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes. Votes: 0

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. Votes: 0

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures. Votes: 0

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. Votes: 0

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures. Votes: 0

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge. Votes: 0

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past? Votes: 0

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good. Votes: 0

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Votes: 0

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. Votes: 0

We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control. Votes: 0

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. Votes: 0

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. Votes: 0

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations. Votes: 0

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. Votes: 0

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. Votes: 0

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. Votes: 0

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes. Votes: 0

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. Votes: 0

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit. Votes: 0

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures. Votes: 0

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. Votes: 0

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency. Votes: 0

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. Votes: 0

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes. Votes: 0

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures. Votes: 0

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes. Votes: 0

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. Votes: 0

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals. Votes: 0

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures. Votes: 0

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? Votes: 0

I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures. Votes: 0

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail. Votes: 0

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world Votes: 0

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated. Votes: 0

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. Votes: 0

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures. Votes: 0

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. Votes: 0

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. Votes: 0

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. Votes: 0

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in. Votes: 0

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. Votes: 0

An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures. Votes: 0

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be. Votes: 0

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership. Votes: 0

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. Votes: 0

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures. Votes: 0

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. Votes: 0

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed. Votes: 0

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures. Votes: 0

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures. Votes: 0

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way. Votes: 0

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. Votes: 0

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level. Votes: 0

If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough Votes: 0

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Votes: 0

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. Votes: 0

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget. Votes: 0

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others. Votes: 0

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. Votes: 0

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have. Votes: 0

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. Votes: 0

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. Votes: 0

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up. Votes: 0

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine. Votes: 0

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. Votes: 0

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Votes: 0

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures. Votes: 0

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. Votes: 0

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Votes: 0

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. Votes: 0

Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments. Votes: 0

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. Votes: 0

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. Votes: 0

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers. Votes: 0

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do. Votes: 0

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Votes: 0

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! Votes: 0

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. Votes: 0

Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short. Votes: 0

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. Votes: 0

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. Votes: 0

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success. Votes: 0

We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures. Votes: 0

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone. Votes: 0

A perfect couple shares their failures, mistakes and their successes equally and deal with them all as a team. Votes: 0

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures. Votes: 0

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life. Votes: 0

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. Votes: 0

The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought Votes: 0

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. Votes: 0

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them. Votes: 0

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush. Votes: 0

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. Votes: 0

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. Votes: 0

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures. Votes: 0

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me Votes: 0

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. Votes: 0

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. Votes: 0

We are only failures in life when give up and stop trying.If you fail, get up and try again. Votes: 0

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. Votes: 0

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. Votes: 0

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures. Votes: 0

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. Votes: 0

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. Votes: 0

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate. Votes: 0

I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures. Votes: 0

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures. Votes: 0

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. Votes: 0

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more. Votes: 0

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do. Votes: 0

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. Votes: 0

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes. Votes: 0

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you. Votes: 0

One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting. Votes: 0

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment. Votes: 0

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures. Votes: 0

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. Votes: 0

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members. Votes: 0

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us. Votes: 0

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action. Votes: 0

Let go of your disappointments, mistakes and failures. May you find complete healing, renewed spiritual strength and courage to begin again. Votes: 0

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. Votes: 0

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity. Votes: 0

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory! Votes: 0

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. Votes: 0

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. Votes: 0

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. Votes: 0

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem. Votes: 0

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants. Votes: 0

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Votes: 0

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. Votes: 0

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. Votes: 0

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success. Votes: 0

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! Votes: 0

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions. Votes: 0

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something. Votes: 0

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Votes: 0

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments. Votes: 0

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures. Votes: 0

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. Votes: 0

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. Votes: 0

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes. Votes: 0

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. Votes: 0

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Votes: 0

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. Votes: 0

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. Votes: 0

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. Votes: 0

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success. Votes: 0

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them. Votes: 0

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. Votes: 0

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present Votes: 0

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes. Votes: 0

Success can never identify who you are. You must always identify it. You cannot allow the failures to identify who you are. Votes: 0

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die. Votes: 0

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. Votes: 0

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope. Votes: 0

The fear of failure has no business in a mind that bears the willingness to learn and grow from all events of failures. Votes: 0

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. Votes: 0

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures. Votes: 0

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]! Votes: 0

The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn't let those failures affect them like they do most. Votes: 0

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. Votes: 0

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. Votes: 0

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. Votes: 0

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. Votes: 0

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. Votes: 0

Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards. Votes: 0

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone. Votes: 0

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them? Votes: 0

God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. Votes: 0

Never waste your energy to dwell on the past failures and mistakes.May you find renewed energy, courage and hope to pursue new adventures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one Votes: 0

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid. Votes: 0

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future. Votes: 0

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes. Votes: 0

It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters Votes: 0

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. Votes: 0

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. Votes: 0

Sometimes you must fail in order to succeed; but, when you do finally succeed, you will appreciate all the failures it took to become successful. Votes: 0

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. Votes: 0

two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere. Votes: 0

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. Votes: 0

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. Votes: 0

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Votes: 0

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail. Votes: 0

Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late! Votes: 0

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred. Votes: 0

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ... Votes: 0

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you. Votes: 0

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. Votes: 0

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best. Votes: 0

The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures. Votes: 0

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on. Votes: 0

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to. Votes: 0

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces. Votes: 0

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for. Votes: 0

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. Votes: 0

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. Votes: 0

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. Votes: 0

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. Votes: 0

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0