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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Phillips, Wendell

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Melville, Herman

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wooden, John

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Lynch, Charles

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Keats, John

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

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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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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 much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edward Albee

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

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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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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

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake