Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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

Korda, Michael

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

10.

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.

11.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Quentin Crisp

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Proverb, German

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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