Failures Quotes

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'.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

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.

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.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

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.

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

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.

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

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

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

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.