Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

12.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

15.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Melville, Herman

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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.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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.

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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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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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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

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

Neuharth, Al

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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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

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

Proverb, German