Motivational Quotes

Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Riis, Jacob

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, German

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

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

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

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Korda, Michael

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Confucius

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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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 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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.