Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Keats, John

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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.

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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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Bill Lyon

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Edward Albee

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Picabia, Francis

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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