Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Seneca

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

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, African

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

Salak, John Charles

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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

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

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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People don't fail, they give up

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Chase, Ilka

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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