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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Viscott, David

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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 good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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