Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Hopkins, Tom

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Viscott, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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