Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Sophocles

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Chase, Ilka

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bill Lyon

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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