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

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.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wooden, John

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

28.

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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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.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.