Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Edward Albee

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Bill Lyon

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Seneca

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Lynch, Charles

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Proverb

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb, African

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.