Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Carver, George Washington

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.

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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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Korda, Michael

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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 is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Neuharth, Al

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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People don't fail, they give up

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.

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

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.