Motivational Quotes

Failure

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, German

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.

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.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb, African

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.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb

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

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bill Lyon

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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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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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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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