Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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)

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

Korda, Michael

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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.

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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