Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

Grayson, David

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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

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

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Sophocles

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.