Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Confucius

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Viscott, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Phillips, Wendell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Miller, Henry

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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.

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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