Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Quentin Crisp

Best Quotes about Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Seneca

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Aoki, Rocky

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Picabia, Francis

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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Bill Lyon

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Melville, Herman

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Edison, Thomas A.