Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.