Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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.

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Keats, John

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Grayson, David

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Wooden, John

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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.