Motivational Quotes

Failure

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Edward Albee

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Grayson, David

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sophocles

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.