Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Grayson, David

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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Melville, Herman

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Sophocles

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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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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.