Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Mckinnon, Dan

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, African

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eliot, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Seneca

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Grayson, David

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.