Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Confucius

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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Sophocles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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