Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Proverb, African

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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

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Keats, John

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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