Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Loelia, Duchess

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

People don't fail, they give up

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Melville, Herman

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Edward Albee

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, German

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, African

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law