Failures Quotes

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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. — Daniel Kahneman
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures. — Mindy Kaling
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. — Charles Kettering
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government… — Steve King
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and… — Madeleine L'Engle
I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move… — Frank Lampard
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. — C.S. Lewis
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest… — Rush Limbaugh
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure,… — Vince Lombardi
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal… — Harvey Mackay
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. — Harvey Mackay
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did… — Orison Swett Marden
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. — Bryant H. McGill
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. — Cormac McCarthy
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… — Arthur Miller
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders… — Moliere
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that… — Lewis Mumford
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. — Flannery O'Connor

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