Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edward Albee

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

Confucius

Failure is the path of least persistence

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Neuharth, Al

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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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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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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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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.