Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Proverb

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

South, Bishop Robert

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Proverb, German

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

30.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Viscott, David

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Grayson, David

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

43.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

45.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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