Failures Quotes

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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