Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Quentin Crisp

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick