Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

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

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Wooden, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Rohn, Jim

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Keats, John

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Edward Albee

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Lynch, Charles

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb, African

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.