Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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

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

Baxter, Anne

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, African

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.