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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.

Patton, George S.

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Baxter, Anne

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Grayson, David

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De