Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

- Brown, William D.

Best Quotes about Failure

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bill Lyon

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Reuther, Walter

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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.

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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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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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