Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Quentin Crisp

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Eliot, George

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Viscott, David

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony