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

People don't fail, they give up

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Sophocles

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Proverb

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

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

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel