Motivational Quotes

Failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Seneca

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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.

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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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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Edward Albee

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keats, John

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Past failures are guideposts to success.