Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Proverb

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

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.

Failure is the path of least persistence

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb, African

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George

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

Edward Albee

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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 only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Phillips, Wendell

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank