Motivational Quotes

Failure

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

- Marcus, Greil

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Melville, Herman

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Aoki, Rocky

11.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

12.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

13.

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

Proverb, Turkish

14.

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

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

17.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

18.

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

Carver, George Washington

19.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

20.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

28.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Phillips, Wendell

32.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

33.

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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

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

36.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

40.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Neuharth, Al

42.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

44.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

45.

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

46.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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

48.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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