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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Reuther, Walter

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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.

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

Heller, Joseph

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George