Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Viscott, David

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

11.

People don't fail, they give up

12.

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

13.

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

James, William

14.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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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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

18.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

19.

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

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

28.

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

29.

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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

38.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Edward Albee

45.

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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Pitino, Rick

48.

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