Failures Quotes
896 Failures quotes by 681 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
— Leonard Cohen
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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
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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
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
— Barack Obama
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
— Dallas Willard
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Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course…
— Susan J. Douglas
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I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the…
— Amy Hempel
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
— Laurence J. Peter
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Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that…
— Michelle Sagara
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I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle…
— Craig Clevenger
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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you.…
— Og Mandino
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It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even…
— Desmond Tutu
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Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.
— Jerry Spinelli
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Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.
— Steve Toltz
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.
— George Washington
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
— Randy Pausch
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