Failures Quotes

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.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

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.

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.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

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.

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.

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