Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bill Lyon

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

Reuther, Walter

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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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

Edward Albee

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

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

George, William Lloyd

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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