Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, German

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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 is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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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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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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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Keats, John

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

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

Porsche, Dr.