Motivational Quotes

Failure

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

- Loelia, Duchess

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Sophocles

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

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

Eliot, George

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Melville, Herman

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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.