Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

Keats, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lynch, Charles

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, African

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Bill Lyon

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro