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Quotes About Failures

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.
~ Robert Redford
I walked over to the holding pen to see if maybe I had a magic touch with camels. This is the persistent dream of dilettantes: that we will, at some point, uncover a superpower that will make sense of lives filled with false starts, failures and endless dabbling.
~ Robert Skinner
Therapists are never "done" with growth, they are simply people who should be dedicated to learning as much about themselves and others as they possibly can. The best therapists are fully human and engage in the struggles of life. Our own failures help us to remain open to the struggles of others; our personal victories give us the optimism and courage to inspire those struggling with their lives.
~ Louis Cozolino
Half of these Jews are Muslim by religion, since their ancestors fell into disillusionment after the failures of a local seventeenth-century messiah.
~ Louis de Bernieres
And we can grow as much through our mistakes, through our failures, as we can through our successes.
~ Ruth Myers
I remember feeling the jolt of history when the second plane crashed into the World Trade Center. For many of us, that was the moment we understood that things can go terribly wrong in our world—not because life is unfair or moral progress impossible but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions and animosities of our ignorant ancestors.
~ Sam Harris
Your success is determined by how much you can really learn from your failures.
~ Joel Brown
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
~ Antonio Machado
To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.
~ Nicole Kidman
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
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
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.
~ Robin Crow
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If you're going to be an eagle, if you're going to soar, you can't go back to the dead things in your life that will poison you. Too many people are feeding off what didn't work out, reliving the disappointments, the failures, the bad breaks.
~ Joel Osteen
We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
~ Dallas Willard
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
~ Richard Rosen
She would love herself, even with her sadness and her distractibility, her defenses and her failures.
~ E. Lockhart
Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!
~ E.M. Forster
It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.
~ E.M. Forster
Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your 'absolute' failures are always going to have limits.
~ Michael Gerber
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