Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Baxter, Anne

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William