Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Melville, Herman

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.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb, African

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

Viscott, David

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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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.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Wooden, John

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Chase, Ilka

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.