Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Keats, John

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you 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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Salak, John Charles

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Carver, George Washington

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lynch, Charles

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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