Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Keats, John

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Quentin Crisp

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Picabia, Francis

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Viscott, David

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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.