Motivational Quotes

Failure

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Rohn, Jim

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynch, Charles

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

James, William

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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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 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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Quentin Crisp

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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.

Carl Jung

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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.