Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Eliot, George

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Grayson, David

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.