Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Porsche, Dr.

Best Quotes about Failure

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, African

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, George

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb, German

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Chase, Ilka

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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 such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Quentin Crisp

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William