Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Jones, Lloyd

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.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

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

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

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Eliot, George

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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.

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