Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Carver, George Washington

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

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Melville, Herman

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

Viscott, David

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jones, Lloyd