Failures Quotes
896 quotes by 681 authors
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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate…
— Steve Largent
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say,…
— Al McGuire
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My priorities have always been God first, family second, career third. I have found that when I put my life in this order, everything seems…
— Mary Kay Ash
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The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
— George MacDonald
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The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
— Wynonna Judd
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series…
— Richard Holbrooke
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A language is a map of our failures
— Adrienne Rich
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As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes…
— Prince
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I just tried to build on my failures.
— Kevin Costner
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We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations…
— Robert E. Wells
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I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
— Gordon Ramsay
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Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at…
— Bow Wow
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It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
— Charlie Munger
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Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to…
— Lindsey Davis
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You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch…
— Bill Simmons
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Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
— Sam Walton
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Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.
— John C. Maxwell
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