Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Confucius

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Grayson, David

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Chase, Ilka

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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.

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis