Motivational Quotes

Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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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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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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