Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

- Brunell, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

People don't fail, they give up

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Quentin Crisp

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese