Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Brown, Les

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Viscott, David

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Edward Albee

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.