Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is simply 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

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

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

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

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Melville, Herman

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Viscott, David

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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