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

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

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Sophocles

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

People don't fail, they give up

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Heller, Joseph

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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, 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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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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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 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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Confucius

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Seneca

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wooden, John

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.