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

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

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Proverb, German

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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 win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sophocles

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Every failure is a step to success.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Eliot, George