Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Keats, John

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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 the path of least persistence

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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People don't fail, they give up