Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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.

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

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

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Keats, John

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

Baxter, Anne

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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