Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Keats, John

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Viscott, David

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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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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 is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Melville, Herman

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.