Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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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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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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 one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese