Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

People don't fail, they give up

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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.

11.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

12.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

19.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

24.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Reuther, Walter

31.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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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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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Keats, John

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.