Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Sophocles

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

Givens, Charles J.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Chase, Ilka

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Viscott, David

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Melville, Herman

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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