Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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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 no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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 man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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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

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People don't fail, they give up

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.