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

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

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sophocles

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Seneca

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Proverb, African

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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