Motivational Quotes

Failure

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

People don't fail, they give up

Failure is the path of least persistence

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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.

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

Givens, Charles J.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Heller, Joseph

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Keats, John

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Reuther, Walter

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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.