Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about 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

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Viscott, David

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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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 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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Edward Albee

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, German

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William