Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Phillips, Wendell

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, African

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.