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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Viscott, David

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

Jones, Lloyd

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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.

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

Sophocles

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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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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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

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

Reuther, Walter

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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James, William

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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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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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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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