Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Korda, Michael

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Waitley, Denis

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Viscott, David

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Brown, Les