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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Seneca

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Grayson, David

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Proverb, African

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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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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.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De