Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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.

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sophocles

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, African

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 is the path of least persistence

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Tracy, Brian

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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

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

Viscott, David

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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

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, German

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley