Motivational Quotes

Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Edward Albee

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Proverb, African

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Viscott, David

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chase, Ilka