Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bill Lyon

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Sophocles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.