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

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Viscott, David

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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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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.

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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Melville, Herman

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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 -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 the path of least persistence

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Reuther, Walter

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People don't fail, they give up

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Proverb, German

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bill Lyon