Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Edward Albee

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Viscott, David

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

Barrie, Sir James M.