Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

- Swinnerton, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, German

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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

Melville, Herman

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Edward Albee

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.