Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb, German

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

Lynch, Charles

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Eliot, George

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb

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

41.

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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Keats, John