Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

- Richardson, Tony

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

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

George, William Lloyd

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Keats, John

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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 will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Heller, Joseph

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carver, George Washington

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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 are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake