Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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 is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Grayson, David

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Proverb

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake