Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Mckinnon, Dan

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb

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

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb, German

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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 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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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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