Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Lynch, Charles

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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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

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

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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 is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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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.

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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