Motivational Quotes

Failure

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Sophocles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Heller, Joseph

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Grayson, David

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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

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

Proverb

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Seneca

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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, 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

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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