Motivational Quotes

Failure

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Viscott, David

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Grayson, David

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Rohn, Jim

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.