Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Quentin Crisp

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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'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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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

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Seneca

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bill Lyon

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Sugarman, Joseph

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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 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