Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

10.

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

Proverb, African

11.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

12.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

15.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

16.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

17.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

18.

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

19.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

22.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

23.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

24.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

31.

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

32.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

33.

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

Heller, Joseph

34.

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

Porsche, Dr.

35.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

36.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

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

38.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

39.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

40.

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.

41.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

43.

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

Carver, George Washington

44.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

45.

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

46.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

47.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.