Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Loelia, Duchess

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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

Proverb

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Viscott, David

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Miller, Henry

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl