Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Salak, John Charles

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Grayson, David

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Proverb, German

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.