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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

People don't fail, they give up

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

Heller, Joseph

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb, German

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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