Failures Quotes

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(on he and Gene Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York): Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Dustin Hoffman

You learn that the first failure isn`t the end. I thought I`d seen the end of my career 10 times over. I`ve experienced them as death blows. What`s nice - after numerous efforts, successes, failures, losses, professional and personal - is to actually accept you`re not going to ace your life. You suffer, then you get on with it. You may spend three months in bed, but, eventually, you`re going to have to get up.

- Uma Thurman

I realize now how very short life is, because I`ve got to be considered to be in the home stretch. But I won`t waste time on recriminations and regrets. And the same goes for my shortcomings and my own failures.

- Gregory Peck

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I`m realistic about the success I`m having and how quickly it can go away. What`s important is to be smart about it.

- Matthew Perry

Even though some of the films I`ve made haven`t been particularly commercial, I don`t find them failures.

- Don Johnson

(Dustin Hoffman on he and Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York) Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Gene Hackman

My view is that you should always do remakes of failures. Then you`ve got nowhere to go but up, you know? They can`t say, "Well, it`s not as good as the original, you made a piece of crap". They`d just say, "What a piece of crap that was," anyway.

- Michael Caine

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

- Sylvester Stallone

The sports page records people`s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man`s failures.

- Barbara Walters

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I`m a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

- Bill Walton

There`s an expectation from the fans and the public, because of our playing roster, so if we return with anything less (than the title), then yeah, we could be considered failures.

- Dwight Yorke

In everything that I do I learn and try to put it to use. I have learned to go through life not into it. It`s like a boat. You mustn`t let the water in or you`re sunk. Of course, I`ve made mistakes and I have had failures, but I do not dwell on them because people don`t care about garbage. When I make a mistake it`s like a bad leaf on a lettuce - I throw it out into the waste basket.

- Ginger Rogers

There are successes and failures in what we`re doing, but that`s the road we`re walking down - stealing from culture all over the place to write a code so that very quickly the audience can swing from the lowest possible comedy moment to the highest possible tragedy with a bit of music in the middle.

- Baz Luhrmann

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C.S. Lewis

Success has made failures of many men.

- Cindy Adams

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

- Ethel Barrymore

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They`ve blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That`s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they`re mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They`re sexist. They hate men - that`s their problem.

- Jerry Falwell

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

- Nick Clooney

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it`s only the world that doesn`t like the failures.

- Sydney Pollack

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

- Tina Weymouth

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

- Wynonna Judd

You learn from your failures - at least I do. When things go right, you don`t sit down and analyze them. But when something goes wrong, I sit and analyze and consider and get introspective. In personal life or professional, not succeeding teaches you more.

- Andrew Robinson

And for one day, we could put aside the failures of what things they keep (saying) about this team.

- John Smoltz

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

I just think that it`s maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

- Lee Scott

There is a fair degree of skepticism in the industry given some of the past failures. But we are selling services to very knowledgeable customers who are looking for services that meet or exceed their expectations in terms of quality and service levels. We are working quietly with many of those providers to achieve and surpass the metrics that they set and expect.

- John Grady

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

- Carl Levin

We were trying to take him in a direction to grow and he wanted to cling to what he was doing before, ... He was a very limited pitcher. Sometimes, it takes longer to learn from our successes and our failures.

- Rick Peterson

I`d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

- Kevyn Aucoin

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn`t because of Black Power, isn`t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it`s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

- Stokely Carmichael

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

- George Washington Carver

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

- Herbert Hoover

In all cases, failure rates for the recalled tires are fractions of a percent and thus determining a single cause for the failures is an unrealistic expectation,

- Sanjay

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Ross Perot

Sometimes you`re not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I`ve written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

- Len Wein

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.

- Will Wright

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn`t attacked us, it`s because he can`t or because we`ve defeated him.

- Michael Scheuer

Haste in every business brings failures.

- Abigail Baird

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.

- Addison Whithecomb

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

- Al Ford

Kindness and intelligence don`t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

- Al Hummel

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

- Alan Adler

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Alan Stissel

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

- Alan Stissel

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

- Alex Bean

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

- Alfredo Martinez

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

- Ali Marchant

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

- Allison Hine