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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sophocles

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Hopkins, Tom

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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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.