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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bloch, Arthur

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Reuther, Walter

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.