Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Eliot, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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 fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carver, George Washington

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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People don't fail, they give up

33.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Bloch, Arthur

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

South, Bishop Robert