Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, German

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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.

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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 at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George