Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Swinnerton, Frank

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hill, Napoleon

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

42.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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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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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Edward Albee