Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Seneca

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

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Wooden, John

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Viscott, David

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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 have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Sophocles

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

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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