Motivational Quotes

Failure

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Sophocles

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Heller, Joseph

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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

Salak, John Charles

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony