Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Sophocles

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Loelia, Duchess

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

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

Viscott, David

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Seneca

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Givens, Charles J.