Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

- Brunell, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Proverb, Chinese

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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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.

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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.

Rohn, Jim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Sophocles

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.