Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

- Root, Elihu

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Grayson, David

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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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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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

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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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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

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

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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony