Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Eliot, George

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Chase, Ilka

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Edward Albee

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Sophocles

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter