Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Melville, Herman

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

Sophocles

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Edward Albee

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Picabia, Francis

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Chase, Ilka

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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