Motivational Quotes

Failure

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Sophocles

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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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 cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, German

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony