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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Proverb

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Edward Albee

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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 such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Eliot, George