Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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 stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Viscott, David

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

Confucius

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

George, William Lloyd

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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.