Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

10.

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

11.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

George, William Lloyd

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

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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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

19.

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

20.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

21.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

22.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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 need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

30.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

32.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

33.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Melville, Herman

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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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

40.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

41.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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

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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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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

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb