Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Grayson, David

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Keats, John

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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.