Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Melville, Herman

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Seneca

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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