Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Seneca

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Keats, John

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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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Grayson, David

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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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.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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

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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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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)

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