Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Salak, John Charles

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Baxter, Anne

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, 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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Proverb, African

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

Edward Albee

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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