Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wooden, John

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, 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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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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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 not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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.