Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

- Root, Elihu

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Eliot, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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.

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

Chase, Ilka

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Seneca

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Proverb, German

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Keats, John

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Heller, Joseph

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People don't fail, they give up

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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 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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.