Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Carl Jung

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Carver, George Washington

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Porsche, Dr.

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Edward Albee

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Losing is a part of winning.