Motivational Quotes

Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Lynch, Charles

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Viscott, David

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Quentin Crisp

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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