Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Confucius

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 is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Korda, Michael

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Keats, John

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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