Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Proverb

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Seneca

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.