Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bill Lyon

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

10.

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

Chase, Ilka

11.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

13.

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

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

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

Pitino, Rick

16.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

17.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

18.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

19.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

20.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

21.

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

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

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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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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

South, Bishop Robert

41.

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

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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

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

44.

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

Neuharth, Al

45.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

48.

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

Proverb, African

49.

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