Motivational Quotes

Failure

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Wooden, John

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, African

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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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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 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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Grayson, David

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.