Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Salak, John Charles

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Grayson, David

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

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Baxter, Anne