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

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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

Wooden, John

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

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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.

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

Grayson, David

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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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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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

28.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

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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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bill Lyon

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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