Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Confucius

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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Baxter, Anne

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Seneca

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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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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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.