Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Sophocles

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Edward Albee

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Proverb

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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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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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, African