Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Keats, John

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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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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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