Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- Salak, John Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, German

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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

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

Proverb, African

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Keats, John

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Neuharth, Al

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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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