Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Tracy, Brian

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Neuharth, Al

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Viscott, David

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

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

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Eliot, George

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

Grayson, David

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Quentin Crisp

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.