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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Baxter, Anne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sophocles

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Picabia, Francis

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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

Grayson, David

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Edward Albee

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

James, William

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Kettering, Charles F.