Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Carl Jung

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

10.

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

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Edward Albee

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

18.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Carver, George Washington

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

22.

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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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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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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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bill Lyon

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Eliot, George

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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 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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt