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

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

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.

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

Lynch, Charles

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Keats, John

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb, German

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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.