Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Bill Lyon

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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Picabia, Francis

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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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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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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