Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

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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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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb, German

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

Sophocles

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bill Lyon

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Proverb, African

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De