Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Seneca

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Lynch, Charles

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Proverb, African

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bill Lyon

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Wooden, John

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

Heller, Joseph

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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