Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Rohn, Jim

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

22.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Sophocles

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, Turkish

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

35.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

39.

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

Proverb, African

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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

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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People don't fail, they give up

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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