Failures Quotations

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

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 learn to laugh at ourselves.

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

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 failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

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.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

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 their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

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, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

On our end, we see a lot of the failures when parents do not come forward and really set out those parameters for their children. Know where they are, know what they're doing. There are just a multitude of disasters awaiting their child if they look away and do not set clear guidelines about alcohol use.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

Never has the need for an independent and thorough investigation into the government failures surrounding Hurricane Katrina been more plainly demonstrated than today. Two Republican investigations into Katrina have been completed. Two reports have been issued. It is now apparent that both have only scratched the surface. This administration has a lot to answer for, and America must learn the truth.

Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn't say that this was ready to deploy.

I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.

Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities.

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

She's a senior, she's a leader for us, and she understands how to hit. The biggest thing in college is handling your failures and not letting them create more. She's learned how to do it, and that comes from more maturity and understanding.

I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort

I don't understand the rationale used in your March review of the best ISPs. What a nightmare! I have had more connection failures and terminations in two days than I had with my old provider in a year.

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 non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

He was one of the great failures in Supreme Court history, ... He was overwhelmed by the job and quit after just five years.

The range of views now include a unified consensus that the failures are Iraq's, that the consequences are Iraq's and that the international community believes that Saddam Hussein is failing to comply with his required obligations.

What do you do, for instance, if the peace you are trying to keep breaks down and large numbers of civilians are in danger of being massacred? I said we must all do our utmost not to allow such horrors, and especially such appalling failures by the United Nations, ever to happen again.

Today, I will refuse to be defined by my failures or victories or DNA or what other people say I am. Each day, I am a new person, a new hope, a new creation...

Linux users now have the ability to quickly recover from a system crash, without having to resort to cumbersome or intensive procedures. Small and mid-sized organizations are increasingly taking advantage of Linux-based servers; providing them with the means to get back in business within minutes, instead of hours or days, means they no longer have to endure long periods of downtime when failures occur. This is key to their very ability to do business.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

playing to fear, pitting neighbor against neighbor and blaming others for their own failures to provide for their people.

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

It is not lost on any of you that this appointment comes at a time when questions have been raised about the integrity of this administration, ... I take these questions very seriously and very personally. I know the people of Chicago expect me to address these failures with real, tangible solutions.

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

I think it was a dose of realism for everybody about where he is. You have to suddenly look at your game and say 'how do I get it to the next level and the level after that?' You have to be able to deal with those sort of failures to come out stronger and better. He took a good, long look at everything and that paid off in San Jose.

It also makes it very clear that should any serious failures come to light in the future, these will be taken by the board with the seriousness that it deserves.

It appears that the data we hear about hedge funds' performance is absolute noise. Even if you accept the unique aspect of self-selected self-reporting, you can't wash out all the failures and expect people to buy your 'perception' of performance.

We hadn't had a history of significant failures in this area.

We have had some failures in the past where people have had considerable amounts of money in individual retirement accounts. They've suffered significant losses. But that coverage will go up to $250,000 per person when we change this rule.

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 failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq -- we don't want to duplicate those here at home,

The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq; we don't want to duplicate those here at home,

We need to stop thinking of the environment as a passive element. It is a fundamental part of community-based decision making. Unfortunately, the poor often lack legal rights to ecosystems and are excluded from decisions about ecosystem management. Without addressing these failures through changes in governance, there is little chance of using the economic potential of ecosystems to reduce rural poverty.

We found across the board amazing flaws and failures in the way the investigations were conducted in case after case.

When you're contesting those jumpers, yeah, it's tough to watch. But you know, it happened and you've got to deal with it. When you play ball, when you play sports, your failures go with success. You've got to be able to endure both.

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

The fact that no one wants to take responsibility for the intelligence failures is unbelievable.

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.

There are more failures than there are successes.

We have identified specific populations of vehicles in which the speed-control deactivation switches have had increasing rates of failures and fires,

When you send a kid to college who is not prepared and then you flunk him out, that kid is walking around the rest of his life with a great big 'F' branded on his forehead. They think of themselves as failures the rest of their lives.

The debacle with Mystery Man made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore.

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur, ... The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur. The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

There are a lot of people that want to send us home feeling like failures because we won bronze. I think we refuse that. What the Olympics is all about is character. And we showed more character and grace in defeat than anybody ever could in victory.

We learn little from our succeses, but a lot from our failures

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To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.

When you temporarily run aground, remember that there are no failures in life. There are only results. Consider the adage: Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!

And we know what a risk factor that is. It produces the kinds of problems that we are seeing at AIG: failures of integrity and financial reporting.

Director Goss's announcement leaves me with one troubling question: what failures in performance, if not these, warrant the convening of an accountability board at the CIA?

Either the new Iraqi government with U.S. backing starts to fix Iraq's problems or continued failures will propel Iraqis in to the arms of the militias, likely generating a full-blown civil war.

At some point people are going to have to decide if we're going to keep addressing the failures of the past or begin to address the future. How do you expect to go hand in hand, solving the problem, when one of the parties is throwing stones?

The timing is highly favorable for third-party candidates. If you look at the state and local level, there are clearly recurring cycles ... characterized by the very kinds of conditions we have right now - voter anger, perceived failures in the political system.

While the numbers in the study are very small, the resistance and clinical failures here are very important. Resistance could mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.

the government should take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties.

The space stuff has been a nightmare. They've faced problems with launch delays and rocket failures -- it has been a litany of problems, one after the other.

The SEC has taken steps to continually enhance its examination oversight, ... Most importantly, the SEC is seeking to utilize its valuable, limited resources in the most effective manner by focusing on the activities and firms that pose the greatest risks of compliance failures that could harm investors. While the SEC can't examine every firm, we're seeking to maximize the efficiencies and benefits of our examination oversight.

The SEC has taken steps to continually enhance its examination oversight. Most importantly, the SEC is seeking to utilize its valuable, limited resources in the most effective manner by focusing on the activities and firms that pose the greatest risks of compliance failures that could harm investors. While the SEC can't examine every firm, we're seeking to maximize the efficiencies and benefits of our examination oversight.

The state has failed miserably here. The city has failed to carry out its responsibility. So, you are seeing a multiple of failures that is occurring at the state, federal and local levels,

The state's neglect of its duties has failed these students for 25 years and now it's time for the state to stop passing the buck and address its failures by implementing the program the way it was meant to be.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.