Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Neuharth, Al

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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