Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bloch, Arthur

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bill Lyon

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Melville, Herman

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Grayson, David

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

Edward Albee

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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 failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Viscott, David

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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