Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Eliot, George

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Keats, John

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

Reuther, Walter

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rohn, Jim

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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