Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Wooden, John

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Eliot, George

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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 is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Turn your scars into stars