Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Clarke, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Heller, Joseph

Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Keats, John

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

Bill Lyon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Sophocles

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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 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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.

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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