Motivational Quotes

Failure

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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.

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

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

Eliot, George

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Keats, John

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham