Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schuller, Robert H.

People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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.

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

Eliot, George

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Grayson, David

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

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Melville, Herman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.