Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Carver, George Washington

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, African

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Seneca

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Viscott, David

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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