Motivational Quotes

Failure

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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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

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

Salak, John Charles

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Proverb, African

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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 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.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.