Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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

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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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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

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, German

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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 all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb, Turkish

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Seneca

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth