Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Melville, Herman

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Brown, Les

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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 path of least persistence

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

25.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Viscott, David

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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.

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb

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

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

42.

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German