Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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)

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Neuharth, Al

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Eliot, George

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

Viscott, David

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Edward Albee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Heller, Joseph