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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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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

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Korda, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig