Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Grayson, David

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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 that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, German

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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

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

Edward Albee

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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 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'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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.