Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Ziglar, Zig

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edward Albee

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Melville, Herman

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, Turkish

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Grayson, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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