Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Keats, John

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.