Motivational Quotes

Failure

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Loelia, Duchess

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Sophocles

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, German

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Seneca

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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 the path of least persistence

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les