Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

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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

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

Edward Albee

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baxter, Anne

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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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.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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 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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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