Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, Turkish

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Melville, Herman

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, German

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Phillips, Wendell

36.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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

Wooden, John

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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