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

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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.

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

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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Chase, Ilka

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.