Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Grayson, David

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bill Lyon

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Porsche, Dr.

33.

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

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

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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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius