Motivational Quotes

Failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edward Albee

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.