Failures Quotes

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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… — Sydney Pollack
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the… — Nick Clooney
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us. — Bob Dylan
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. — Bruce Feiler
I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who… — Danny Huston
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime… — Steven Johnson
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a… — Steven Johnson
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. — Vinod Khosla
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures… — Charlie Pierce
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system… — Charles Bass
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our… — Emile M. Cioran
Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to… — David Berg
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,… — Walt Whitman
When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures… — Claire Danes
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others… — W. Somerset Maugham
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave… — Willa Cather
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. — Pearl S. Buck
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed — Gustav Mahler
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail. — Jack White
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want… — Kristin Scott Thomas
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures. — Robert Genn

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