Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Korda, Michael

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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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 is the path of least persistence

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Keats, John

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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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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.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, African

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.