Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Keats, John

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

Grayson, David

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.

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

Edward Albee

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Failure is the path of least persistence

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Picabia, Francis

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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