Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

George, William Lloyd

People don't fail, they give up

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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.

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Sophocles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Wooden, John

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Proverb, German

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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