Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Brown, Les

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George

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

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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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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Keats, John

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, Turkish

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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