Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about 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

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Carver, George Washington

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Aoki, Rocky

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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 one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Melville, Herman

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

Seneca

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Grayson, David

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

Viscott, David

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

Keats, John

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter