Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bloch, Arthur

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Proverb, German

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, African

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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

Viscott, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Heller, Joseph