Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Viscott, David

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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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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 are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Proverb

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Keats, John

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Proverb, German

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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.