Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

Grayson, David

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Viscott, David

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Proverb, Turkish

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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.