Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Miller, Henry

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Confucius

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Viscott, David

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb, African

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank