Motivational Quotes

Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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, 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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

George, William Lloyd

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Aoki, Rocky

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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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

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

Proverb, African

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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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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

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lynch, Charles

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Keats, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell