Top Failures Quotes
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
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
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone 
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley 
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The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings 
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey 
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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 
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda 
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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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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley 
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