Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Viscott, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, African

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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 good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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.

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.