Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb

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

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

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

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Sophocles

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, African

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

34.

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

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Salak, John Charles

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

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Neuharth, Al

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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.