Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Wooden, John

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

Picabia, Francis

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bristol, Claude 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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Edward Albee

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Proverb, German

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

Sophocles

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.