Motivational Quotes

Failure

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Tracy, Brian

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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 have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edward Albee

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, German

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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