Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

George, William Lloyd

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Viscott, David

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Melville, Herman

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Keats, John

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

Seneca

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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

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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