Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Neuharth, Al

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Melville, Herman

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Seneca

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Lynch, Charles