Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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.

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

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Seneca

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Proverb, German

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Viscott, David

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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.

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

Keats, John

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell