Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Pitino, Rick

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

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

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

20.

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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Rohn, Jim

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

33.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Reuther, Walter

42.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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 dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German