Failures Quotes
Quotes about Failures
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- “Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ...” — Edith Johnson
- “I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice...” — Claudia Schiffer
- “A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself...” — Georges Clemenceau
- “The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.” — Wang Yang-ming
- “It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.” — Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
- “There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.” — Dr. Perle Thompson
- “The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.” — Richard R. Grant
- “Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.” — John Charles Salak
- “Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.” — Joseph H. Odell
- “Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.” — Gina Shapira
- “I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.” — Phil Gramm
- “A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” — Elmer G. Letterman
- “You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” — Charles C. Noble
- “Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Martin Vanbee
- “I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.” — James Gordon Bennett
- “Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.” — Louis Binstock
- “Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.” — Madeleine Kunin
- “Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?” — Richard Hovey
- “Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” — Edward Dowden
- “Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.” — Andre Bustanoby
- “If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.” — Arther Bloch
- “If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.” — James Burgh
- “Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.” — Flower A. Newhouse
- “No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.” — Paul Dickson
- “Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.” — Jinger Heath
- “If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.” — Shirley Hufstedler
- “The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know" "I didn't think" and "I didn't care.” — Henry H. Buckley
- “I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.” — Allen H. Neuharth
- “Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.” — A. W. Hare
- “The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.” — Rachel Field
- “If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.” — Nadine Stair
- “No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.” — Michelene Wandor
- “The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.” — Herbert B. Prochnow
- “Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.” — E. M. Cioran