Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Baxter, Anne

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Proverb, German

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Melville, Herman

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Eliot, George

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Sophocles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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People don't fail, they give up