Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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 are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Les

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, African

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sophocles

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Keats, John

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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