Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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.

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

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

Keats, John

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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 do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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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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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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Seneca

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

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Quentin Crisp

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross