Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Randy K. Milholland

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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 would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.