Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

- Walker, Harold Blake

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Bloch, Arthur

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, German

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sophocles

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 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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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Keats, John

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Robbins, Anthony