Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

People don't fail, they give up

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

Eliot, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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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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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Grayson, David

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

43.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Keats, John

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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