Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Heller, Joseph

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb, African

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Bill Lyon

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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