Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Robbins, Anthony

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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 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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

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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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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Viscott, David

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony