Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

- Walker, Harold Blake

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Turkish

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Wooden, John

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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

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People don't fail, they give up

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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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Rohn, Jim

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Proverb

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis