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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Melville, Herman

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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.

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Sophocles

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Keats, John