#failure

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

#did #failures #get #him #his

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. ↗

— John Mica

#behavior #bloated #bureaucracy #countries #detection

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#failures #faults #good #good pair #having

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#between #difference #failure #got #hit

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#am #failure #hear #i #i am

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. ↗

— Chanakya

#afraid #failure #happiest #once #people

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ends #failure #fear #politics #usually

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#failure #forgive #i #imagine #life

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ↗

— George Cukor

#any #failure #successes #unless #you