Motivational Quotes

Failure

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Seneca

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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