Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bloch, Arthur

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.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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 we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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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

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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 a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Edward Albee

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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.