Failures Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Man errs as long as he struggles.

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

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

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

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

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

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.

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

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

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

A good marksman may miss.

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

To make no mistake is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

In a great mistake.

If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.