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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Miller, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Grayson, 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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Barton, Bruce

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Bill Lyon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

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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