Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Keats, John

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

James, William

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Picabia, Francis

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, German

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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.

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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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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham