Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bill Lyon

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Brown, Les

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

Melville, Herman

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Neuharth, Al

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Clarke, J. Richard