Motivational Quotes

Failure

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

- Albrecht, Karl

Best Quotes about Failure

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Melville, Herman

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Chase, Ilka

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb, African

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter