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Quotes About Failures

Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company included. We set ourselves up as little gods – all-knowing, all-healing. People resent that and rightly. We have polite labels for our failures. We agree among ourselves that anything bearing one of those labels is, of course, incurable.' Dr
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Atul Gawande
I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.
~ Frank Lampard
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
The Holy Spirit uses real people with all their flaws, failures and forgiven sins.
~ Roger Sapp
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.
~ Romeo Dallaire
one of the many valuable recommendations in this book is that we academics should, collectively, talk to each other more about how we actually spend our time, with all the anxieties, displacements, and failures that involves, rather than presenting ourselves as the overachieving writing robots whom most systems of assessment seem designed to reward.
~ Maggie Berg
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Success can make anyone look good, it is the failures that reveal the true face of a man.
~ Apoorve Dubey
Look around your competitors and learn from them.Look within for your talents and exploit them.Look back at your failures and learn from them.Look forward to your successes and reach for them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...
~ Axay D. Bhisikar
He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures.
~ Nikki Rowe
Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
~ Noel DeJesus
The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.
~ Candy bustillo
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
~ Mohnish Pabrai
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
~ Ann Brashares
Nevertheless, many people are now convinced that the attacks of September 11 say little about Islam and much about the sordid career of the West—in particular, about the failures of U.S. foreign policy.
~ Sam Harris
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
People with ADHD—at any age—often possess intellectual effervescence. Unfortunately, this natural sparkle can be snuffed out by years of criticism, reprimands, redirection, lack of appreciation, and repeated disappointments, frustrations, and outright failures.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt -- O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heart And the golden bees were making white combs And sweet honey from all my failures.
~ Antonio Machado