Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Korda, Michael

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

34.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Proverb, Chinese