Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Clarke, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Keats, John

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

Grayson, David

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bill Lyon

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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, African

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

Lynch, Charles

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Viscott, David

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Confucius

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon