Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb, African

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

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bill Lyon

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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 moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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