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

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

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

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

Eliot, George

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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People don't fail, they give up

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Grayson, David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

30.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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.

35.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence