Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Clarke, J. Richard

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Seneca

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Sophocles

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.