Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Brown, Les

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham