Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Keats, John

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Proverb, African