Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

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.

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.

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

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.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Wooden, John

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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People don't fail, they give up

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Korda, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank