Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, African

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Keats, John

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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