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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Keats, John

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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

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

Proverb, African

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.