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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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

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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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

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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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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

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Proverb, African

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

Baxter, Anne

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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People don't fail, they give up

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Quentin Crisp

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Grayson, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

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

Neuharth, Al