Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Swinnerton, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Sophocles

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Proverb

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Keats, John

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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 greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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