Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Melville, Herman

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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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 thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Chase, Ilka

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, African

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Heller, Joseph

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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