Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Grayson, David

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Viscott, David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Heller, Joseph

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland