Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Keats, John

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.