Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Neuharth, Al

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

10.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Sophocles

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.