Motivational Quotes

Failure

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

- Hobson, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Keats, John

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Viscott, David

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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 an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bloch, Arthur

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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