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

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Seneca

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Edward Albee

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Grayson, David

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sophocles

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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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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