Motivational Quotes

Failure

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

- John Keats

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Baxter, Anne

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bill Lyon

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Melville, Herman

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

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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