Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Seneca

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Edward Albee

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd