Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Picabia, Francis

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Eliot, George

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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

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

Wooden, John

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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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