Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Grayson, David

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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