Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

George, William Lloyd

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Carver, George Washington

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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