Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about 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

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Eliot, George

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

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

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

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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

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

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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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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

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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 can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.