Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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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

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

Keats, John

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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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