Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Wooden, John

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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 such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Sophocles

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

Eliot, George

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Korda, Michael

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart