Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Sophocles

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Seneca

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

George, William Lloyd

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Edward Albee

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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

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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.

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Proverb

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth