Motivational Quotes

Failure

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

15.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

16.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Lynch, Charles

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

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

22.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

24.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

29.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

30.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

32.

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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

34.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

37.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Grayson, David

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

43.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Quentin Crisp