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

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.

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Phillips, Wendell

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Confucius

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

Keats, John

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.