Failures Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood
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
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
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary A. Ward
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard Baruch
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
Bridget Riley