Failures Quotes
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I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
Benjamin Barber
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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
George Armitage Miller
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.
Napoleon Hill
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.
Amy Poehler
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I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.
Clara Barton
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
Edward Glaeser
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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 The White Stripes
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
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I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
Cory Booker
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We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.
Allen W. Wood
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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
Steve Jobs
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Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
Alex Smith
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Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability.
Albert Bandura
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Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Ed Bliss
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We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
Albert Bandura
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Success is outliving your failures
Erma Bombeck
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Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
Blake Mycoskie
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Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
Nellie Bly
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
Ben Affleck
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Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
Albert L. Gray
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Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
George Clooney