Motivational Quotes

Failure

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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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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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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 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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, African

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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.