Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Givens, Charles J.

People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Turn your scars into stars

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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