Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Aoki, Rocky

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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.

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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bill Lyon

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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

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

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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 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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Baxter, Anne

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross