Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

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

Seneca

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bill Lyon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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