Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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

Keats, John

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

Sophocles

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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

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

15.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

19.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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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

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Proverb

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

42.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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