Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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, 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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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've never failed you've never tried.

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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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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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Neuharth, Al

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Chase, Ilka

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Failure is the path of least persistence