Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Loelia, Duchess

Best Quotes about Failure

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

People don't fail, they give up

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

George, William Lloyd

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Miller, Henry

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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.