Motivational Quotes

Failure

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

- Merton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Clemenceau, Georges

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Carl Jung

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.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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 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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Edison, Thomas 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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.