Motivational Quotes

Failure

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

- Albrecht, Karl

Best Quotes about Failure

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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, Sri Swami

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore