Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Seneca

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

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.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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

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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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

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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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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 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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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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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

33.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

43.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Bill Lyon

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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 learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Sophocles

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake