Failures Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.