Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee