Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Wooden, John

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

James, William

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

Sophocles

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, 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 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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom