Failures Quotes

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

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

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

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

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

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.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

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

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

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

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

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

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.

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

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

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

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

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

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

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

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

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