Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

- Brunell, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Korda, Michael

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.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Wooden, John

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Rohn, Jim

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart