Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Sophocles

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bill Lyon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Picabia, Francis

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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