Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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 most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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.

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People don't fail, they give up

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Miller, Henry

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David