Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

People don't fail, they give up

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Miller, Henry

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edward Albee

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

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

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.