Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Loelia, Duchess

Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Reuther, Walter

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

11.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

14.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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 all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.