Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Kaufman, Herbert

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Grayson, David

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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

Keats, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chase, Ilka

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John