Motivational Quotes

Failure

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Neuharth, Al

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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

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Viscott, David

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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