Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bloch, Arthur

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sophocles

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Chase, Ilka

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Wooden, John

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Viscott, David

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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