Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

South, Bishop Robert

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pitino, Rick

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wooden, John

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

George, William Lloyd

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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