Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Heller, Joseph

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Sophocles

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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Seneca

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Quentin Crisp

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

James, William

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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 a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Grayson, David

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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