Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Seneca

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Miller, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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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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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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