Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Picabia, Francis

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Hoffer, Eric

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Bill Lyon

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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.

Jones, Lloyd

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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 is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Baxter, Anne

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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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Seneca