Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Sophocles

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

Proverb

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, German

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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 does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Baxter, Anne

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Melville, Herman

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.