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There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

Tom Krause

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

Howard W. Newton

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Nelson Algren

The list of failures and shortcomings is long.

Alexander Torshin

The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq -- we don't want to duplicate those here at home.

Jay Inslee

And yet we must be ready to get into next winter without major failures.

Anatoly Chubais

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Paul Tillich

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

George Lindsey

If you look through history there has been some success in this and there's been some failures. It's very difficult.

Brent Mitchell

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Pete Harpolis

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

The nature of the failures and the practices we saw was just egregious, completely outrageous.

George Iny

There are more failures than there are successes.

Gary Stibel

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

Bryant H. Mcgill

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed.

Gustav Mahler

And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William H. Gass

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

The preponderance of our failures were tree-related.

David Mcdonald

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Charles J. Givens

We hadn't had a history of significant failures in this area.

Tom Badger

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.

Loren Eiseley

There are many more failures than successes.

Wayne Pacelle

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

We found across the board amazing flaws and failures in the way the investigations were conducted in case after case.

Deborah Pearlstein

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

John Smoltz

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

Richard Rosen

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

John Gould

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Flannery O'Connor

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

Joe Gibbs

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

James M. Barrie

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Richard Whately

We want to hedge off any failures.

Scott Langel

We've had some successes and some failures.

Willie Howard

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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.

Orison Swett Marden

There are failures with all products.

Theron Roschen

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

Francis Picabia

We don't want a repeat of those failures that were embarrassing to them.

Philip Coyle

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Cormac Mccarthy