Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

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

Wooden, John

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Sophocles

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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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

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Viscott, David

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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

Proverb

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carver, George Washington

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry