Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Failure

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Heller, Joseph

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Keats, John

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Korda, Michael

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Proverb, African