Failures Quotes

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Failure, Two

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Failure, True, Defeat

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Road, Finger, Posts

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Trying, Challenge

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Life, Success, Realize

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus

Far, Accept, Himself

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.
Sivananda

Future, Mistakes, Mind

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

Success, True, Friend

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Family, Ignore

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller

Life, Success, Game

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

Work, Young, Times

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

Excuses, Making, Percent

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

Great, History, Political

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Waitley

True, Forget, Lives

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley

Put, Call, Claim

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Time, Sorry

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles

Money, Real, Problem

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

Mean, Him, Cannot

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley

Mistakes, Lessons

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
Colin Powell

Great, Words, Problem

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge

Success, Time, Made

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov

God, Tell, Able

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda

Time, Good, Patient

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson

Learn, Start, Again

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie

Good, Happy, Give

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Personal, Level, Tremendous

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

Failure, Person, Quite

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Yourself, Mistakes, Human

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