Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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

Proverb

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Heller, Joseph

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