Motivational Quotes

Failure

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

- Cooke, E. V.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Eliot, George

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Grayson, David

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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

Wooden, John

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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