Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Sophocles

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People don't fail, they give up

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

South, Bishop Robert

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky