Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Swinnerton, Frank

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wooden, John

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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 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 it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.