Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Chase, Ilka

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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.

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

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Baldwin, James

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Wooden, John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Tracy, Brian

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick