Motivational Quotes

Failure

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

James, William

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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 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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Viscott, David

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Eliot, George

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Grayson, David

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Proverb