Failures Quotes

896 Failures quotes by 681 unique authors

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. — Nancy Gibbs
For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. — Charles Duhigg
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures. — Richard Engel
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. — Michael Douglas
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a… — Nick Turse
Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made… — Stephen J. Cannell
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures… — Rick Perlstein
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our… — Edward McKendree Bounds
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. — Tim Howard
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past… — Henry Petroski
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes,… — Henry Petroski
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures. — Henry Petroski
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of… — Paul Di Filippo
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. — C.S. Lewis
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! — Doug Larson
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. — James M. Barrie
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. — Humphry Davy
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to… — Katherine Mansfield
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their… — Andrew Taylor Still
First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much… — Mitchell Reiss
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know… — Bridget Riley
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. — Wendell Willkie
We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. — James M. Barrie
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions

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