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

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

Heller, Joseph

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Sophocles

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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