Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Picabia, Francis

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Randy K. Milholland

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Wooden, John

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

James, William

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

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

Sophocles

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb

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

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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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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.