Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Loelia, Duchess

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Rohn, Jim

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Proverb, German

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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