Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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