Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

- Hillyer, Robert S.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Viscott, David

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

George, William Lloyd

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

33.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Grayson, David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Sophocles

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.