Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Sophocles

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Loelia, Duchess

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Phillips, Wendell