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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, African

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

Chase, Ilka

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Seneca

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bill Lyon

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

George, William Lloyd