Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edward Albee

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

Keats, John

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Melville, Herman

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Givens, Charles J.