Motivational Quotes

Failure

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

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

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

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, German

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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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.

24.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Grayson, David

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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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, African

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Phillips, Wendell