Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

James, William

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chase, Ilka

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Les

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Baxter, Anne

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Sophocles

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

Wooden, John

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward