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

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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.

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Proverb, African

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Sophocles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Winfrey, Oprah

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

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

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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

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

Edward Albee

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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