Motivational Quotes

Failure

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Sophocles

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.

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Aoki, Rocky

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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.

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Grayson, David

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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.