Motivational Quotes

Failure

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

- Lynch, Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Wooden, John

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Bill Lyon

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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 the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.