Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aoki, Rocky

Best Quotes about Failure

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Chase, Ilka

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb

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

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

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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Keats, John

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Edward Albee

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

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.