Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Sophocles

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Albrecht, Karl

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

28.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Seneca

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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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 is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

44.

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

Baxter, Anne

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish