Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

- Root, Elihu

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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

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

Proverb, African

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Wooden, John

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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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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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