Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

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

George, William Lloyd

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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 don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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

Bill Lyon

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

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