Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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

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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lynch, Charles

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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)

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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