Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Seneca

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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 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

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Proverb, German

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis