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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Proverb, African

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

James, William

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Viscott, David

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

Baxter, Anne

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.