Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Melville, Herman

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13