Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Grayson, David

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Failure is the path of least persistence

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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Rohn, Jim

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Seneca

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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