Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Quentin Crisp

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles