Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

10.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

12.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Seneca

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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People don't fail, they give up

17.

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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

21.

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

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

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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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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 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

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Keats, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

39.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.