Failures Quotes

There are great lessons to be learn’t in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

~ Kimberly Giles

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

~ Belinda Jeffrey

If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can endure every hardship with hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being the proof. After hastily recalling all crew and leaving Spacedock 7 thirty hours ago, there had been nothing but problems. Breakdowns in the sensors and telemetry, system failures of a wide variety and finally – the Last Straw: a coupling seal in the stardrive engine failed. Fortunately the cut-out worked, or the whole of engineering would’ve disappeared in a flaming ball of anti-matter. Five crewmen were seriously injured as it was. Commander Smith, the Chief Entech, had the offending unit stripped down and under repair. They were currently on conversion drive - which could only propel them at sub-light speeds – and Ripley was currently in an elevator with a very pissed Captain Falconer.

~ Christina Engela

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher.

~ Awdhesh Singh

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

~ Michael Connelly

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to experience than to be told.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My life changed the moment I stopped blaming others for my failures.

~ Dhaval Gajera

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

~ Lord Acton

Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

~ Rosalind Russell

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

~ Joe Louis

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

~ Beryl Markham

Man errs as long as he struggles.

~ Johann Von Goethe

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

~ Phyllis Therous

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

~ Gina Shapira

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

~ German Proverb

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.

~ Sam Collins

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

~ Voltaire

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

~ John Locke

To err is human to forgive divine.

~ Alexander Pope

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

~ Joan Collins

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

~ Richard Whately

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

~ French Proverb

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.

~ Joan Collins

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

~ Lee Trevino

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

~ Herman Melville

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

~ Spanish Proverb

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

~ Bishop Wc. Magee

A good marksman may miss.

~ Thomas Fuller