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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Phillips, Wendell

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Lynch, Charles

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People don't fail, they give up

22.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Eliot, George

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Melville, Herman