Motivational Quotes

Failure

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Keats, John

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Melville, Herman

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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 is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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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

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

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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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.

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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.