Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Sophocles

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

Keats, John

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Seneca

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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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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.