Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

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.

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

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Grayson, David

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

George, William Lloyd

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Edward Albee

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

Melville, Herman

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Bill Lyon

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Sophocles

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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