Failures Quotes

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

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

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

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.

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.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

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.

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

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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.

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

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

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.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

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

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

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

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

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.