Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

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

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Grayson, David

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

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Loelia, Duchess