Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Lynch, Charles

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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 often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Proverb, African

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Sophocles

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

Reuther, Walter