Motivational Quotes

Failure

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorothea Brande

Best Quotes about Failure

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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)

If you've never failed you've never tried.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.