Failures Quotes

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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and… — John Cage
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our… — Garth Stein
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and… — Louisa May Alcott
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were… — Kurt Vonnegut
I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been… — Moss Hart
Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadnâ€™t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment. — Richard Matheson
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson
99% of failures come from people who make excuses. — George Washington
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it… — Joshua Ferris
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used… — Charles Morgan
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to… — Alfred Adler
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task,… — Helen Keller
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather… — Heidi Julavits
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but… — Jeanette Winterson
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character. — Leonard Cohen
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I… — Rabindranath Tagore
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are… — Khalil Gibran
You canâ€™t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. — Barack Obama
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. — Randy Pausch

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