Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Salak, John Charles

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

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

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

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

Sophocles

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Neuharth, Al

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, African

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Eliot, George

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

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Keats, John

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham