Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Korda, Michael

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.

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picabia, Francis

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry