Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Aoki, Rocky

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, 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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Albrecht, Karl

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Wooden, John

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Grayson, David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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