Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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.

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

13.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

Lynch, Charles

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu