Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Lynch, Charles

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Edward Albee

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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