Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Sophocles

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Chase, Ilka

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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.

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Grayson, David

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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry