Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb, African

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Viscott, David

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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 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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Keats, John

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

Reuther, Walter

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Edward Albee

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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.

Miller, Arthur

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.