Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Keats, John

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Edward Albee

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Baxter, Anne

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