Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Eliot, George

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Grayson, David

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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