Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Edward Albee

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Wooden, John

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Proverb, German

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Quentin Crisp

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Phillips, Wendell