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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Neuharth, Al

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Edward Albee

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.