Motivational Quotes

Failure

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

- Walt Whitman

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Miller, Henry

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

32.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, African

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

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Proverb