Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Lynch, Charles

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

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Grayson, David

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

32.

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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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 the path of least persistence

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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 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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell