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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Neuharth, Al

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

10.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

11.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

12.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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

18.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

25.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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

30.

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

George, William Lloyd

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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

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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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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Korda, Michael