Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Viscott, David

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Grayson, David

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Bill Lyon

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.