Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sophocles

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Phillips, Wendell

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Wooden, John

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