Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Proverb, African

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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.

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Korda, Michael

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Viscott, David

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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.