Motivational Quotes

Failure

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Fitzgerald, Ella

Best Quotes about Failure

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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 your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wooden, John

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony