Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Porsche, Dr.

Best Quotes about Failure

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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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

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quentin Crisp

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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.

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

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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