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

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

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.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Edward Albee

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Barrie, Sir James 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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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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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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

South, Bishop Robert

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Lynch, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Tracy, Brian

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Confucius

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake