Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Salak, John Charles

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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

Proverb

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.