Motivational Quotes

Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goizueta, Roberto

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Lynch, Charles

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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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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