Motivational Quotes

Failure

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

- Bloch, Arthur

Best Quotes about Failure

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Seneca

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Phillips, Wendell

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