Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom