Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bloch, Arthur

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

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

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Proverb, African

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Melville, Herman

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up