Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Kaufman, Herbert

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Edward Albee

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Quentin Crisp

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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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 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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, African

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.