Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Seneca

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb, African

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Quentin Crisp

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David