Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Baxter, Anne

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert