Top Failures Quotes
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
Mason Cooley 
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Robert Redford 
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Waitley 
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
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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
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith
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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
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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
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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
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin
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