Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Carver, George Washington

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Keats, John

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

Loelia, Duchess

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Hillyer, Robert S.