Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Melville, Herman

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb

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

Viscott, David

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

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

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

Wooden, John

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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People don't fail, they give up

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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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

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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13