Motivational Quotes

Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

People don't fail, they give up

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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 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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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Viscott, David

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.