Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bill Lyon

Best Quotes about Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Baxter, Anne

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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 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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Bloch, Arthur

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.