Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

James, William

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hopkins, Tom

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sophocles

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, German

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Proverb, African

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Porsche, Dr.