Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carver, George Washington

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Keats, John

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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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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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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

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

Proverb

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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