Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

10.

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

George, William Lloyd

11.

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

Proverb

12.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

13.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

14.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

18.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

19.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

20.

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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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Confucius

26.

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

27.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Heller, Joseph

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

32.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

43.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick 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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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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 you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Loelia, Duchess