Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

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.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Kettering, Charles F.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob