Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Melville, Herman

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De