Quotes About Failures

responsible for their triumphs as well as their failures. She also told him, as if it were a well-known law of nature, like gravity or centripetal force, that creative thinking blossomed in what others might see as idleness.

And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

Infinite are the mortifications of the bare attempt to emerge from obscurity; numberless the failures; and greater and more galling still the vicissitudes and tormenting accompaniments of success.

Nature breeds a vast oversupply of experiments and then sterilizes the failures by murdering them.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

Each adventurous genius will still leap at the arduous prize, and find himself stimulated, rather that discouraged, by the failures of his predecessors; while he hopes that the glory of achieving so hard an adventure is reserved for him alone.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

We made too many wrong mistakes.

She'd never been a lot of things, and though she used to blame her miseries on her heritage, she'd long since realized that if you blame your parents for your failures, you have to give them credit for your success.

The only hope we have is that we can pay off on our failures

History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.