Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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.

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

Proverb

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

Grayson, David

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, African

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

Viscott, David

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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

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Edward Albee

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca