Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

- Swinnerton, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Edward Albee

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Viscott, David

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Proverb, African

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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