Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Clarke, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lynch, Charles

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

Edward Albee

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

George, William Lloyd

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.