Motivational Quotes

Failure

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bloch, Arthur

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Grayson, David

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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