Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Keats, John

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Chase, Ilka

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Viscott, David

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Salak, John Charles

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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.