Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Bristol, Claude M.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Proverb

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Seneca

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

Bill Lyon

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Grayson, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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