The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright

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

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

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Steven Brust

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda

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

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson

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

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

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

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford

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

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
Frank Langella

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard Baruch

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw