Motivational Quotes

Failure

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

- Hobson, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sophocles

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

Keats, John

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Grayson, David

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Seneca

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim