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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Melville, Herman

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Grayson, David

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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