Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

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)

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Viscott, David

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas 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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Seneca