Motivational Quotes

Failure

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quentin Crisp

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Neuharth, Al

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Edward Albee

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, German

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

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Heller, Joseph

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon