Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

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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

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande