Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Edward Albee

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Korda, Michael

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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James, William

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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