Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Reuther, Walter

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

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Keats, John

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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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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami