Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Bloch, Arthur

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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.

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

Wooden, John

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Neuharth, Al

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