Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

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

Seneca

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Eliot, George

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

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David