Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Korda, Michael

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.

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.

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

Reuther, Walter

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Eliot, George

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Confucius

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

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

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al