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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Picabia, Francis

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Edward Albee

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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