Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

- Walker, Harold Blake

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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

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.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

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

Sophocles

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Keats, John

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

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Turkish