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

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

Proverb, African

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Keats, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick