Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

People don't fail, they give up

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bristol, Claude M.