Top 205 Failures Quotes

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 like the failures.
Sydney Pollack
I’ve had some unbelievable successes, and I’ve also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.
Shaun King
Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that’s the interesting thing.
Cory Barlog
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
Rush Limbaugh
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
Colum McCann
The ‘ideal’ body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I’m going the other way – sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
Bill Simmons
When you give him a chance, you learn that President Trump cares deeply about fairness and justice and will do everything in his power to correct the past failures of the political class in Washington.
Lara Trump
Share your IoT experiences. Share your successes, best practices, and failures. We know that IoT doesn’t work perfectly every time, but we can learn from each other’s mistakes and vow not to repeat them.
Maciej Kranz
I’ve certainly learnt there’s nothing more important than cash – cash flow issues are one of the biggest causes of company failures.
Peter Jones
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
God’s forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
My failures have made me look at myself in a way I’ve never wanted to before.
Tiger Woods
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Steve King
Successes and failures are part of life.
Varun Sandesh
After a series of failures, to be part of a project like ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’ is dream-like, and it’s easily the most unexpected thing of my career.
Tamannaah
There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
Fabrizio Moreira
In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.
Yu Darvish
Failures don’t bother me much, nor do I let success go to my head.
Pankaj Tripathi
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
Morgan Neville
War is society’s dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl Marlantes
I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven’t, and that’s kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the ‘failures’ and learn from them, make the best of them.
Tim Story
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We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.
Christopher Miller
If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
Arthur Miller
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.
Katherine Mansfield
Failure is a better teacher than success. I am what I am today because of failures and successes.
Rakshit Shetty
I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately
We’re finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children’s errors, setbacks or failures as though they’re damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.
Carol S. Dweck
Failures happen. You can’t cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best… Sometimes, even the best is not enough.
Divya Dutta
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one’s palms keep sliding off.
Joseph Brodsky
We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Waitley
I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize – and I do it a lot, too – and rethink them.
Heidi Roizen
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.
Alexander Payne
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.
Helmut Lang
Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.
Richard Branson
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.
Lee Scott
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad – amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.
Steven Johnson