Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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

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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 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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Korda, Michael

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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