Failures Quotes

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

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

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

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

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

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

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.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

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.

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

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.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

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

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.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

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

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

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