Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Porsche, Dr.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Wooden, John

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Sophocles

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Viscott, David

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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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 is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Givens, Charles J.