Motivational Quotes

Failure

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Grayson, David

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Wooden, John

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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

Seneca

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Heller, Joseph

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah