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

People don't fail, they give up

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Viscott, David

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Confucius

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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James, William

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Edward Albee

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

Sophocles

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

Bill Lyon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, African

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

Loelia, Duchess

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