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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Proverb, German

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

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Albrecht, Karl

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Heller, Joseph

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.