Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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.

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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Keats, John

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Sophocles

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.