Motivational Quotes

Failure

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

- Bill Lyon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Korda, Michael

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

George, William Lloyd

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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, 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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.