Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Melville, Herman

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Carver, George Washington

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

George, William Lloyd

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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

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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