Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Keats, John

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Heller, Joseph

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Cole, Edwin Louis