Motivational Quotes

Failure

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Miller, Henry

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

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

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

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

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Edison, Thomas 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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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

32.

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard