Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hopkins, Tom

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb, African

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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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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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Wooden, John

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Keats, John

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Quentin Crisp

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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