Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

People don't fail, they give up

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

Bill Lyon

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

Sophocles

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Viscott, David

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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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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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, African

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.