Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Baxter, Anne

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Proverb, German

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.