Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Heller, Joseph

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, African

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sophocles

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.