Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wooden, John

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Edward Albee

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Grayson, David

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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