Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aoki, Rocky

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Grayson, David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Carver, George Washington

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Waitley, Denis

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Miller, Henry

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

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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