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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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

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

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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