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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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 is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, German

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Neuharth, Al

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony