Motivational Quotes

Failure

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Viscott, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

13.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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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.

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Keats, John

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

35.

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese