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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Heller, Joseph

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Sophocles

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

Grayson, David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Porsche, Dr.