Motivational Quotes

Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

James, William

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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