Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Chase, Ilka

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

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

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Keats, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Proverb

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.