Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 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.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Melville, Herman

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph