Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Brown, Les

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Proverb, German

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wooden, John

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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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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