Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, African

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

Keats, John

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

Rohn, Jim

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Neuharth, Al

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Heller, Joseph

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

George, William Lloyd

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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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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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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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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.