Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Heller, Joseph

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, German

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey