Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Korda, Michael

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb

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

Edward Albee

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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.