Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about 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.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Sophocles

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Proverb, German

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Proverb, African

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

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa