Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Edward Albee

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

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

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Viscott, David

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Lynch, Charles

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Rohn, Jim

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Wooden, John