Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Viscott, David

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Keats, John

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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 failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Lawes, Lewis E.