Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Heller, Joseph

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, German

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Seneca

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, 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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Sophocles

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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.