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 thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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

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

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Proverb

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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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 no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Heller, Joseph

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.