Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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.

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

Grayson, David

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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