Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hopkins, Tom

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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.

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

Seneca

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

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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 no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Edward Albee

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Grayson, David

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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