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

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Keats, John

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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.