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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Chase, Ilka

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.