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

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

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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.

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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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

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

Quentin Crisp

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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