Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carver, George Washington

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

13.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

18.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

22.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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 is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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.

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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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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

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

43.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Clarke, J. Richard

49.

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

Proverb, Turkish