Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Heller, Joseph

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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 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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Failure is the path of least persistence