Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

James, William

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis