Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Sophocles

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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 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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Edward Albee

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

Reuther, Walter

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Edison, Thomas 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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David