Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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 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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob