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

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Chase, Ilka

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Sophocles

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Baxter, Anne

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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

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Seneca

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.