Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Carver, George Washington

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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 will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Sophocles

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Quentin Crisp

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Neuharth, Al

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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.