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

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

Eliot, George

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

Failure is the path of least persistence

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, German

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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 moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Melville, Herman

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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.