Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

28.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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