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

1.

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

Keats, John

2.

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

Proverb, African

3.

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.

4.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

5.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

6.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

7.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

8.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

9.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

10.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

14.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

17.

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

South, Bishop Robert

18.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

19.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

20.

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

21.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

22.

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

23.

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

Phillips, Wendell

24.

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

Quentin Crisp

25.

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

26.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

30.

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

31.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

34.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

35.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

36.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

37.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

40.

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

Porsche, Dr.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

45.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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