Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

- Baldwin, James

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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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)

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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