Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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 is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Givens, Charles J.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Sophocles

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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