Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Viscott, David

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Phillips, Wendell

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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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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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.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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