Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Brown, Les

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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

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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Reuther, Walter

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Sophocles

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bill Lyon

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Kaufman, Herbert