Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

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.

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.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Seneca

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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 a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Sophocles

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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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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