Motivational Quotes

Failure

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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.

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

Keats, John

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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

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

Proverb

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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Losing is a part of winning.