Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

- Walker, Harold Blake

Best Quotes about Failure

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Viscott, David

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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 is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Wooden, John

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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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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 but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Edward Albee

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

Picabia, Francis

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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