Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Viscott, David

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Wooden, John

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

Sophocles

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Miller, Henry

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

33.

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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Seneca

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't fail, they give up