Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Failure

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Korda, Michael

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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, 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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Carl Jung