Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Sophocles

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baxter, Anne

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Grayson, David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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.