Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Porsche, Dr.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sophocles

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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

13.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

21.

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

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edward Albee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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People don't fail, they give up

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Proverb, African

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington