Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Porsche, Dr.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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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 doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Keats, John

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Wooden, John

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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.