Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Proverb, German

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

South, Bishop Robert

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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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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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Wooden, John

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

Brown, Les

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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