Motivational Quotes

Failure

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

- Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

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.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Eliot, George

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Miller, Henry

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

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Seneca

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.