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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Proverb

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

South, Bishop Robert

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Melville, Herman

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Seneca

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

Bill Lyon

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

George, William Lloyd

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Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.