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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Seneca

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

14.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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

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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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Aoki, Rocky

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Keats, John

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

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

Proverb

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Eliot, George

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

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bill Lyon