Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Heller, Joseph

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Phillips, Wendell

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Bristol, Claude M.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Proverb, German

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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

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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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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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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

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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 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.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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