Motivational Quotes

Failure

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Sophocles

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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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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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