Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Sophocles

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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 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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Proverb, German

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.