Failures Quotes
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
Stokely Carmichael
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
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
Don Johnson
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda
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
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
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
Mindy Kaling
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.
Ben Affleck
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
Richard Rosen
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Morris West
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Charles F. Bass
Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore
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