Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Grayson, David

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Keats, John

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

27.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Neuharth, Al

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Proverb

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella