Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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 is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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)

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

Eliot, George

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Keats, John

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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